Chicago, IL: Police say domestic abuse ended in murder

Man charged with stabbing woman to death
September 18, 2010
A 47-year-old man was charged Saturday with killing a woman in what police are calling a "domestic-related incident."

Carey Donald was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the killing of Chorelynn Johnson-Roth, 53, on Friday. The two lived at the same address on the 1300 block of West 56th Street, officials said.

Johnson-Roth was pronounced dead at 11:50 a.m. Friday at Stroger Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. She died of multiple stab injuries in a homicide, the office ruled Saturday following an autopsy.

Police officials said Johnson-Roth was the victim of domestic abuse. Police went to the woman's home at about 10:15 a.m. Friday after getting a call about a battery in progress and found her bleeding from a head wound she sustained from a knife attack, officials said.