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🗞️ Story file #76

Seven-year-old girl stabbed to death in Chicago

Oct 4, 7 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 4, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Post Millennial
  2. Oct 4, 8 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
  3. Oct 5, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  4. Oct 5, 6 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
  5. Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 6 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 4, 7 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 4, 12 PMOct 512 PMOct 612 PMNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 4, 10:00 AM ET: 7-year-old Chicago girl stabbed to death in the street by unhinged strangerNew York Post, Oct 4, 10:00 PM ET: 'I just don't know' 7-year-old Chicago girl stabbed to death in the street by unhinged strangerThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 4, 10:00 AM ET: HORROR: 7-Year-Old Girl Fatally Stabbed in the Back by Stranger on Chicago Sidewalk in Broad Daylight AttackThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 4, 12:00 PM ET: SICK ATTACK Girl, 7, stabbed to death on sidewalk as vid shows people racing to stop womanBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 4, 1:00 PM ET: Chicago Horror: Seven-Year-Old Girl Stabbed to Death by ‘Stranger’ While Walking Down SidewalkBreitbart, Oct 4, 1:00 PM ET: Murder City: Seven-Year-Old Chicago Girl Stabbed to Death By 'Stranger'Breitbart, Oct 5, 12:00 AM ET: Murder City: Seven-Year-Old Chicago Girl Allegedly Stabbed to Death by ‘Stranger’ While Walking Down SidewalkABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 4, 5:00 PM ET: 7-year-old girl dies after being stabbed in Chicago attack, police sayABC News, Oct 5, 8:00 AM ET: 7-year-old girl fatally stabbed on Chicago streetABC News, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Mother demands 'justice' in fatal street stabbing of 7-year-old daughterABC News, Oct 5, 4:00 PM ET: Mom calls for 'justice' in stabbing death of 7-year-old daughterABC News, Oct 6, 6:00 AM ET: Mother seeks 'justice' in fatal stabbing of childThe Post MillennialThe Post MillennialThe Post Millennial, Oct 4, 7:00 PM ET: 7-year-old girl killed by stranger in random Chicago stabbing in broad daylightThe Post Millennial, Oct 5, 11:00 AM ET: Chicago woman who stabbed 7-year-old girl to death in random attack has years-long rap sheet, repeated releasesThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 5, 8:00 AM ET: Woman charged with murder after girl, 7, stabbed to death by stranger in streetChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 5, 9:00 AM ET: Woman charged in ‘unprovoked’ stabbing death of 7-year-old girlThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Chicago Girl, 7, Stabbed Repeatedly While Out for Walk With Older Sister in Broad Daylight, Suspect in CustodyThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: Woman charged with murder after stabbing seven-year-old girl in ChicagoHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: Chicago Woman Accused Of Fatally Stabbing 7-Year-Old Girl📺 TVCNN, 5:22 AM ET: Chicago Woman Shot Multiple Times ByFox News, 6:35 AM ET: WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING 7-YEAR-OLD GIRLFox News, 7:30 AM ET: CAREER CRIMINAL ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO CHILDFox News, 9:18 AM ET: 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED IN CHICAGO STABBINGFox News, 9:19 AM ET: WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING 7-YEAR-OLD GIRLFox News, 9:19 AM ET: 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED IN CHICAGO STABBINGFox News, 9:20 AM ET: CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLD FATALLY STABBED MULTIPLE TIMESFox News, 9:20 AM ET: 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED IN CHICAGO STABBINGFox News, 12:37 PM ET: VIOLENT ATTACK BY REPEAT OFFENDER CAUGHT ON CAMERAFox News, 12:38 PM ET: 7-YEAR-OLD STABBED ON CHICAGO STREET. REPEAT OFFENDER ORIGINALLY TARGETED 17-YEAR-OLD SISTERFox News, 12:38 PM ET: SUSPECTS MOTHER: I AM SORRY FOR THAT FAMILY, MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT IN HER RIGHT MINDFox News, 12:38 PM ET: SHAVON GAYDEN HAD OUTSTANDING WARRANTS BEFORE ATTACKING AND KILLING EDDIMAR HERNANDEZFox News, 1:34 PM ET: WOMAN W/ ACTIVE WARRANT ACCUSED OF STABBING CHILDFox News, 1:35 PM ET: VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLDFox News, 1:35 PM ET: WOMAN W/ ACTIVE WARRANT ACCUSED OF STABBING CHILDFox News, 1:35 PM ET: 7-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN "UNPROVOKED" CHICAGO STABBINGFox News, 1:37 PM ET: VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLDFox News, 1:39 PM ET: VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLDFox News, 1:40 PM ET: VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLDFox News, 3:46 PM ET: NYPD DETECTIVE RECOVERS AFTER OFF-DUTY STABBINGFox News, 3:46 PM ET: PN TR'S N. DHS: NYC STABBING SUSPECTS IN U.S. ILLEGALLYFox News, 3:46 PM ET: NYPD DETECTIVE RECOVERS AFTER OFF-DUTY STABBINGCNN, 2:52 PM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SUES OVER BORDER PATROL SHOOTINGCNN, 2:57 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTINGCNN, 2:58 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTINGCNN, 2:58 PM ET: She was shot by a federal agent in Chicago on October 4, 2025CNN, 2:58 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTINGCNN, 2:59 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTINGCNN, 2:59 PM ET: She was shot by a federal agent in Chicago on October 4, 2025CNN, 2:59 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTING. Marimar Martinez | Shot by CBP AgentCNN, 2:59 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTINGCNN, 2:59 PM ET: MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTING📻 radioABC News Update, Oct 5, 2:32 AM ET: story 2 of 4ABC News Update, Oct 5, 12:32 AM ET: story 2 of 4ABC News Update, Oct 4, 8:32 PM ET: story 3 of 3🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “unprovoked” “justice” “Stranger”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 woman charged 🐘 chicago girl

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • ABC News (5 wordings): “7-year-old girl dies after being stabbed in Chicago attack, police say” → “Mother seeks 'justice' in fatal stabbing of child”
  • Breitbart (3 wordings): “Chicago Horror: Seven-Year-Old Girl Stabbed to Death by ‘Stranger’ While Walking Down Sidewalk” → “Murder City: Seven-Year-Old Chicago Girl Allegedly Stabbed to Death by ‘Stranger’ While Walking Down Sidewalk”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “7-year-old Chicago girl stabbed to death in the street by unhinged stranger” → “'I just don't know' 7-year-old Chicago girl stabbed to death in the street by unhinged stranger”
  • The Post Millennial (2 wordings): “7-year-old girl killed by stranger in random Chicago stabbing in broad daylight” → “Chicago woman who stabbed 7-year-old girl to death in random attack has years-long rap sheet, repeated releases”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN6 min
Fox News6 min
  • MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTING CNN, 4 min
  • She was shot by a federal agent in Chicago on October 4, 2025 CNN, 82 s
  • VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF MURDERING CHICAGO 7-YEAR-OLD Fox News, 62 s
  • NYPD DETECTIVE RECOVERS AFTER OFF-DUTY STABBING Fox News, 44 s
  • 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED IN CHICAGO STABBING Fox News, 39 s
  • MARIMAR MARTINEZ SUING OVER CHICAGO CBP SHOOTING. Marimar Martinez | Shot by CBP Agent CNN, 36 s
  • WOMAN W/ ACTIVE WARRANT ACCUSED OF STABBING CHILD Fox News, 34 s
  • CHICAGO WOMAN SUES OVER BORDER PATROL SHOOTING CNN, 26 s

📻 On the radio

  • ABC News Update, Oct 5, 2:32 AM ET: story 2 of 4
  • ABC News Update, Oct 5, 12:32 AM ET: story 2 of 4
  • ABC News Update, Oct 4, 8:32 PM ET: story 3 of 3

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • A 7-year-old girl was stabbed to death while walking with her sister in Chicago, and a woman has been charged with murder. Oct 6: told by 6 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Chicago Stranger Woman 7-year-old girl Chicago police

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Rebuilt every hour from the front pages of the outlets we follow.
Lean ratings: AllSides (CC BY-NC 4.0) · reliability: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Everything else (mood, spin, feelings, framing) is our own reading of the headlines.