CHICAGO (CBS) — Neighbors in Joliet are stunned after a 6-year-old boy stabbed and killed his 2-year-old brother with a kitchen knife on Friday. Danitha Gaines has lived in the usually quiet neighborhood for the past five years, seeing the two boys at their home as they played outside or walked the block with family. “It’s horrible. It’s heartbreaking. I didn’t sleep a wink last night. Just terrible,” she said. “A very nice family, nice.” But those memories are now joined by a new one of a mother sitting outside her home, grieving. “She sat right there on that bench yesterday, just looking so distraught. I even started crying,” Gaines said. Police say the 2-year-old boy died Friday after his 6-year-old brother stabbed him several times with a steak knife inside their home while two adults were in another room. “I have a 2-year-old grandson and a 6-year-old granddaughter, and it’s just so heart-wrenching. This is terrible. We have never had anything like this happen in this neighborhood,” Gaines said.
