Mom's Ex-Boyfriend Charged In Fatal Stabbing Of 12-Year-Old Girl

CHICAGO, IL — The ex-boyfriend of the mother of a 12-year-old girl who was beaten and fatally stabbed over the weekend in a North Side apartment building was charged in connection with her death, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. John Singleton, 31, was charged with first-degree murder Monday, and his bail hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, the report added

The attack happened at around 9:45 p.m. Sunday, June 11, at a building in the 4600 block of North Beacon Street in the Sheridan Park neighborhood, the report stated. Alexis Stubbs was found beaten and stabbed multiple times, and she was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, the report added. Alexis was pronounced dead around an hour after the attack at 10:46 p.m. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for Lake View and Chicago — or other neighborhoods. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)

Investigators are still trying to find out the specific circumtances surrounding the stabbing, but they believe it happened during a domestic dispute, the report stated. Alexis lived in the apartment with her mother, who was outside in front of the building when the beating and stabbing occurred, the report added.

Police tracked down Singleton to a portable toilet at a construction site after investigators used cellphone pings to locate him, the report stated. According to court records, Singleton has been convicted on domestic battery charges in the past, the report added. In 2012, he was found guilty of misdemeanor domestic battery, and in 2014, he pleaded guilty to felony aggravated domestic battery for choking a woman and was on parole after being released from prison in April, according to the Sun-Times.

Reggie Taylor, the maintenance man at the Sheridan Park apartment building, told the Sun-Times that Alexis' mother was "awesome," and he described the two as inseparable. He said Alexis — who he said her little curls made her resemble Shirley Temple — was "[v]ery happy all the time."

"She loved her child …," Taylor told the Sun-Times. "They was like Siamese twins, you know. You didn’t see them apart. She really took care of her baby."

Alexis' mother will be donating her daughter's organs, the report stated.

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