A man was stabbed to death on LaSalle Street in the River North neighborhood just
before 4 a.m. Saturday.
He was attacked by a group of people after exchanging words with them at a
nearby BP gas station at the corner of Ontario Street and LaSalle Boulevard.
He and another man were stabbed at about 3:45 a.m. in the 600 block of North
LaSalle Boulevard.
The man killed suffered "several stab wounds to the chest". A
17-year-old boy who was wounded has been released from the hospital.
The 20-year-old victim, whose name was not being released immediately because
his identity has not been verified, was pronounced dead of apparent stab wounds
at 4:18 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The man who died was with a group of people
in a silver minivan that tried to leave the gas station after an argument with
three people on Ontario Street.
The group of three swelled to more than ten people, who chased the van after
it pulled away.
The crowd grew to between ten and fifteen people and they were rushing the
car.Two of the people being attacked didn't make it in the car.
The van went north on LaSalle before doing a U-turn to double back and
apparently get the two people who didn't make it in the van.
Meanwhile, the larger group was trying to hit people in the car, throwing
bottles at it, and someone in the van was swinging a club at the group.
The group got ahold of the man who was stabbed to death and found on the sidewalk in
front of the south-facing minivan by responding police.
A witness at the scene stated"
They were stomping him. I thought he was shot because the puncture wounds were
so deep.He was soaked in blood. It looked like they hit him in the head, it looked
like they stomped him in the face."
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