Hyde Park & Kenwood

Crime & Mayhem

Woman, 21, Charged in Fatal Hyde Park Stabbing

October 10, 2014 1:39pm | Updated October 13, 2014 8:44am
Shawanda Swain, 21, is charged with stabbing Damani Chenier to death Thursday.
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Chicago Police Department

CHICAGO — A Hyde Park woman is charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a man to death Thursday morning, police said Friday.

Police said Shawanda Swain, 21, killed Damani Chenier, 23, during in a "domestic-related incident" about 3:10 a.m. Thursday in the 5100 block of South Hyde Park Boulevard.

Chenier was found stabbed in the chest. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, where he died.

Swain, of the 5100 block of South Hyde Park Boulevard, is charged with first-degree murder.

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