Bionca Ellis, the 32-year-old woman who fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy last year in a North Olmsted grocery store parking lot, will be sentenced Monday.

What happened

On June 3, 2024, Ellis stole two knives from the Volunteers of America thrift store and then walked next door to the North Olmsted Giant Eagle, where she spotted a 38-year-old woman pushing a child in a cart. Suspect in North Olmsted fatal toddler stabbing obtained knife at thrift store just before attack, police say

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Ellis followed the mother, Margot Wood, and her son, Julian Wood, into the parking lot and then stabbed the child while he was in a grocery cart. When Margot tried to pull Julian out of

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