A 32-year-old Illinois man will spend decades behind bars for repeatedly stabbing his girlfriend's 9-year-old daughter after he became enraged because she was stomping around the house.

Demetrius Fisher was sentenced to 27 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder , according to the Lake County State Attorney's Office . The Lake County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a stabbing on Feb. 15, 2024, at a home in the 3800 block of North Manor Avenue in Beach Park, which is some 50 miles northwest of Chicago.

Cops said the girl's mother received a phone call from the girl's school about her not being in attendance. She went home and saw Fisher walking out of the door. When he saw her, Fisher ran away. She went inside to find her daughter suffering from

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