Arrests Made After Hawthorne Stabbing Death
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A Chicago television station has reported three persons of interest were taken into custody Nov. 17 in connection with a man's death by stabbing at Hawthorne Race Course. The victim was identified by the medical examiner as 30-year-old Rodrigo Flores Garcia.
Stickney, Ill., chief of police John Sladetz told Chicago's WLS news that Garcia, along with the woman and two men in custody, were all stable employees at Hawthorne. The Stickney deputy chief of police said charges will likely be filed overnight.
According to police accounts given to the television station, Hawthorne officials said two men, who work for trainers stabled on the backstretch of Hawthorne, got into a fight the evening of Nov. 16. Security was notified of the fight around 6 p.m. One of the men was taken away in an ambulance, unconscious.
"Last night our backside security was notified of an altercation between two employees of two trainers stabled here at Hawthorne. They immediately contacted Stickney police and medical," said Jim Miller, Hawthorne's director of publicity.
"The victim had two to three puncture wounds on the left side, which he succumbed to at the hospital, where he was pronounced (dead)," Sladetz said.