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Nelly Vazquez-Salazar woman from Waukegan, Illinois charged with stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death apparently told police that her daughter attacked her with a knife because she was “possessed”, and that it was self-defense. Vazquez-Salazar later recanted that story, but as to why she did something so horrendous to her child is still unclear.

Christian Alvarez, 25, who lives across the hall from Vazquez-Salazar, said he and his girlfriend were asleep in their apartment at about 4:30 a.m. when they were awakened by loud knocking on their door.

Vazquez-Salazar was screaming and crying hysterically, trying to speak with an emergency dispatcher on her phone but having trouble communicating because of her poor English. She did not appear to have any blood on her, Alvarez said. Vazquez-Salazar at first told Alvarez there was an intruder in her apartment trying to kill her. But when Alvarez asked where her daughter was, her story shifted; she said she had been asleep when Evelyn approached her bed with a knife, threatening “in a different voice” to murder her, Alvarez said the woman told him.

“We were in shock,” he said.

A 6-year-old was found stabbed to death in Waukegan, Illinois, a far northern suburb of Chicago. Police have brought in the mother for questioning as a “person of interest”, but the woman is not under arrest.

Officers responding to a call about 4:40 a.m. in the 4200 block of Hickory Hills Drive found a woman with cuts on her hands and wrists, according to a statement by Waukegan police.

The body of the woman’s daughter, whom authorities identified as Evelyn Vazquez, was found in an adjacent apartment, the statement said. An autopsy conducted Monday afternoon determined that Evelyn died of multiple stab wounds in the neck and upper chest, said Lake County Coroner Richard Keller.