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Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon

Seven-year-old Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon was fatally stabbed in Chicago; Shavon Gayden is charged.

Charged · allegations
last updated 7 October 2026 · 4 sources
Confirmed facts
9
Open questions
4
Victim age
7
Charge
Murder
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Case file Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon, reference D C zero one nine seven. The Associated Press reported that on October third, twenty twenty-six, police said a seven-year-old girl was walking in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on Saturday morning when a woman carrying an unspecified sharp object approached her and stabbed her. CBS News Chicago reported that police placed the location in the eighty-six hundred block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in East Chatham. The Guardian reported that police and prosecutors said the girl was walking with her seventeen-year-old sister when the alleged attack occurred. AP reported that police said bystanders chased and detained the woman. AP reported that the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the child as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon, and that she was pronounced dead at Comer Children’s Hospital. CBS News Chicago reported that loved ones identified her as Eddimar Hernandez Chacon. AP reported that Chicago police said Shavon Gayden, forty-eight, of Chicago, was charged with one felony count of first-degree murder. The charge is an unproven allegation. The file’s open questions include whether the rescheduled October seventh hearing occurred, what motive, if any, investigators established, whether there was any relationship between the accused and the child, and which spelling of the child’s full name will be used in official court records. This has been an automated reading of case file D C zero one nine seven at developing case dot com. Every fact you heard names a public source.

Timeline of what's confirmed9 entries
3 October 2026
Police said a 7-year-old girl was walking in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on Saturday morning when a woman carrying an unspecified sharp object approached her and stabbed her.
AP
3 October 2026
CBS News Chicago reported that police placed the location in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood.
CBS News Chicago
3 October 2026
The Guardian reported that police and prosecutors said the girl was walking with her 17-year-old sister when the alleged attack occurred.
The Guardian
3 October 2026
Police said bystanders chased and detained the woman after the stabbing.
AP
3 October 2026
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the child as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon, and AP reported she was pronounced dead at Comer Children's Hospital.
AP
4 October 2026
Chicago police said Shavon Gayden, 48, of Chicago, was charged with one felony count of first-degree murder; the charge is an unproven allegation.
AP
4 October 2026
CBS News Chicago reported that loved ones identified the girl as Eddimar Hernandez Chacon.
CBS News Chicago
5 October 2026
The Cook County State's Attorney's Office said Gayden had been scheduled for a Monday morning hearing but was hospitalized and was not going to appear; AP reported her injuries were not considered life-threatening.
AP
7 October 2026
The Guardian reported that a spokesperson for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office said a new hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday.
The Guardian
Open questionsunconfirmed · not conclusions
Did the rescheduled 7 October 2026 hearing occur, and what orders were entered?unconfirmed in trusted search results · unconfirmed
What motive, if any, have investigators established?police had not commented on motive in AP reporting · unconfirmed
Was there any relationship between the accused and the child?AP reported this was not immediately clear · unconfirmed
Which spelling of the child's full name will be used in official court records?trusted reports differ: AP used Edi Mari; CBS and The Guardian used Eddimar · unconfirmed
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