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Bionca Ellis was sentenced to life without parole for fatally stabbing Julian Wood, 3, and injuring his mother in a grocery store parking lot

Ellis had stolen two knives before following the mother and child as the boy sat in a shopping cart

The boy's mother said at sentencing that she could "still see the terror in his eyes and it haunts me every day"

An Ohio woman has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing a 3-year-old boy outside of a grocery store.

Bionca Ellis, 34, stole two knives from the Volunteers of America Thrift Store next to the Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted on June 3, 2024, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release .

She then went into the Giant Eagle, before spotting 3-year-

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