Crime & Safety

Victim of Walmart Knife Attack Says Lips, Wrist & Arms All Cut

A Plainfield woman is wanted in connection with the June knife attack.

ROMEOVILLE, IL — A Plainfield woman is wanted for stabbing another woman who claimed she was cut half a dozen times during the attack.

Brittini McMiller, 27, faces aggravated battery charges for allegedly cutting up 30-year-old Zippora Henry in June. The Romeoville police brought the case against McMiller.

In a petition for a protective order, Henry, a Joliet resident, said McMiller tailed her to Walmart then called her over to talk.

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“I got to her car and she pulled a knife and cut my wrist,” Henry said in her petition.

“She cut six different times on my arms and my lip,” Henry said.

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And arms and lips weren’t the only thing McMiller was allegedly cutting, according to Henry.

“Brittini came to my house,” she said. “She got my mail. She cut a package of my mail up. I saw her do this.”

McMiller remains at large. The warrant for her arrest carries a $100,000 bond.


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