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Knife Found Where 9-Year-Old Girl Was Slain

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« on: July 23, 2008, 12:21:07 pm »

Posted: Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:16PM
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Knife Found Where 9-Year-Old Girl Was Slain

CHICAGO (STNG) - The knife found Monday in the South Side alley where 9-year-old Mya Lyons was murdered last week had “definite blood stains on it,” according to the group that made the discovery.

A not-for-profit group clearing brush and debris near the 8400 block of South Gilbert Court in the Auburn Gresham community last Tuesday found the knife, police said.

The knife was found about 50 feet from where Mya’s body was discovered, according to Cleanslate deputy manager John Rush, whose crews have been clearing the severely overgrown area since the morning of Mya’s death.

“When we started last week, it kind of looked like we were walking in a forest in Cambodia,” Rush said. “It was very overgrown.”

Shakir Lee, 20, spotted something shiny underneath brush that was cleared out and uncovered the knife, Rush said.

(Photo: This knife was found on July 21, 2008, among weeds in the alley where the body of Mya Lyons was found one week earlier.)

Rush described the knife as 6 to 8 inches long, and said it appeared to be a steak knife with blood stains.

A police investigator confirmed that the knife is being tested to determine if it was the weapon used in the attack.

The knife was found underneath a tree limb that had been cut down and may have been picked up by forestry trucks and tossed in another place accidentally, Rush said.

“My first response was that I was surprised police hadn’t found it,” Rush said.

Rush said interns were called the morning of Mya’s murder for a special project and did not know about the circumstances until they arrived at the scene. He said the sand was still down where the body was found.

Cleanslate provides job training programs for ex-offenders and currently has a one-year contract with the city Department of Streets and Sanitation.

The girl’s family is cautiously optimistic about the discovery.

“We’re trying to be as hopeful as we can be, and hope this will be the turning point in the investigation we all are looking for,” said the girl’s father, Richard Lyons. “But we don’t want to get too excited, only to be let down again.”

On Sunday, Chicago Police released “a person of interest” who was being questioned in the case. Police declined to comment on why the man was released.
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