BY JORDAN OWEN
Sun-Times Media
A caretaker was stabbed to death in the Albany Park neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Erenbira Pimentel-Hernandez, 38, was stabbed multiple times in a stairwell in the 4700 block of North Lawndale Avenue about 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
Minutes earlier, a witness saw Hernandez talking to a man in a rear parking lot, according to a police report. The two then walked into the stairwell and closed the door.
The witness heard Hernandez scream and saw the man leave the stairwell and walk to parked pickup truck. He told the witness, “You tell police, I’ll get you next,” according to the report.
Hernandez, of the 5000 block of West Grand Avenue, was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she died at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy confirmed she died of multiple stab wounds and the death was ruled a homicide.
Hernandez was a caretaker for a senior who lived on the block, according to the report.
Police called the attack domestic related.
Nobody has been charged for the murder.
Area North detectives are investigating.