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NextImg:One held in fatal stabbing of Heaven Taylor, 16, in Loop

An 18-year-old woman was arrested in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old girl in the Loop after Chicago police were contacted by a pastor of a West Side church who told them the woman wanted to “turn herself in,” according to a police report. 

Just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, police met with the pastor and the suspect outside a West Side church, and she was placed into custody without incident, police said. No charges had been announced as of Thursday morning.

Officers responding to a disturbance at a Loop Taco Bell were flagged down by someone who described a stabbing nearby in the first block of West Van Buren Street about 11:20 p.m. Tuesd There, they found the unresponsive body of Heaven Taylor lying in the street, suffering from stab wounds to the chest and officers began trying to save her, by applying a “chest seal”

Several witnesses were still on the scene, where a large group had been fighting, and at least one person identified the suspect by name and told them what happened: Taylor was in an argument with her when that female took out a knife and stabbed Taylor twice in the chest before fleeing,

Taylor, who was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was pronounced dead early Wednesday.

Taylor’s mom, Chalesia Clayton, said Taylor had just started her junior year at UCAN Academy.

She was “a lovable person,” and had a 2-year-old son, whom Clayton said she will now raise.  “I just want her remembered as a good momma and a good auntie and a good daughter,” Clayton said. “This right here just hurts.”

UCAN released a statement Wednesday sending condolences to “Heaven’s family and her beloved son.”

Taylor was the second child in less than a year Clayton lost to violence in Chicago.

“I just buried my oldest son last year — her older brother — and now I’ve got to bury my daughter this year,” Clayton told the Sun–Times. “There’s just too much violence out here.” 

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