CLEVELAND — After several delays and competency hearings, the trial for 34-year-old Bionca Ellis, the woman accused of stabbing a 3-year-old boy sitting in a shopping cart and attacking his mother in a Giant Eagle parking lot last year, began Monday with opening statements.

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We will not be streaming this trial at the request of the judge, but News 5 will have updates in our shows and on our website and app.

Ellis was indicted by a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury last year and charged with aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, two counts of attempted murder, tampering with evidence and aggravated theft for the June 3, 2024, attack that killed the toddler Julian Wood and left his mothe

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