Caress T. Shumaker | Chicago Police
A woman has been charged with fatally stabbing her boyfriend, Ronald Thomas, to death during aargument Wednesday night in his South Loop apartment.
Caress T. Shumaker, 29, is accused of stabbing the 27-year-old Thomas in the chest at 8:40 p.m. during an argument in the apartment in the 2100 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Thomas was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, authorities said. An autopsy Thursday showed he died of a stab wound to the chest, and ruled his death a homicide.
Shumaker also lives in the 2100 block of South Michigan, but it was unclear whether she lived in the same apartment. She has been charged with first-degree murder, police said.
She was ordered held on a $500,000 bond and her next court hearing was set for March 30.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire