A person of interest in the random stabbing of a teenage girl at a northwest Indiana baseball game was arrested Sunday afternoon after an extensive manhunt, authorities said.
The man wanted in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old girl in Lowell Saturday afternoon was spotted in southern Lake County early Sunday, authorities said. He was later arrested by a member of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department after a foot chase in a cornfield near 120th Street and Iowa Avenue.
The person of interest, Dimas Gabriel Yanez, 26, was booked into the Lake County Jail after his arrest. Investigators determined he was deported to Honduras in 2018 and returned to the United States illegally, police said.
The US Department of Homeland Security was notified of his arrest, authorities said.
Yanez allegedly stabbed a teenage girl who was watching her brother’s baseball game Saturday afternoon near VFW 6841. Her mother tried to intervene, but Yanez tried to stab her as well, police said.
The girl, who was stabbed in the hand, was treated and released from the hospital later Saturday.