By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 35-year-old man fatally stabbed his girlfriend Julia Martin before jumping to his death Friday evening in the Prairie Shores neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.
About 7 p.m., the man confronted the 28-year-old Martin when she returned to her home in the 3000 block of South King Drive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He stabbed her repeatedly, then jumped to his death from a window of the building, police said.
Both were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where the was pronounced dead at 7:18 p.m. and Martin was pronounced dead at 7:37 p.m., authorities said.
The man’s name has not been released by the medical examiner’s office, pending notification of family.
Autopsies ruled Martin’s death a homicide from multiple sharp force injuries, the medical examiner’s office said. The man’s death was ruled a sucicide from cervical fracture and dislocation following a jump from a height.
Police called the case a domestic murder-suicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire