Bail was set at $3 million today for a man accused of stabbing three people, including a customer who was critically injured, inside a Gage Park Walgreens store.
Daniel Lopez, 21 of the 5100 block of South Spaulding Avenue, was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery. He remained hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and did not appear for his bond hearing before Judge Ramon Ocasio III.
Lopez entered the Walgreens in the 5400 block of South Kedzie Avenue at about 1 a.m. Tuesday and pulled out a nine-inch chef’s knife and stabbed a 40-year-old woman who was shopping, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Lorraine Scaduto.
The woman suffered stab wounds to her abdomen, leg and arm and remained in critical condition at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Scaduto said.
Lopez then stabbed a 66-year-old woman employee once in the chest, Scaduto said. A 46-year-old store manager intervened and wrestled Lopez to the ground, suffering lacerations to his left hand that severed a tendon, Scaduto said. Both of those victims were treated at Mt. Sinai and were released.
Police said Lopez was believed to be under the influence of a narcotic at the time.
Prosecutors and a store employee of the store said Lopez did not say a word before stabbing the first victim. "He walked in. He looked normal," said a store worker, Manuel Rodriguez. "But he had a butcher knife."
Lopez has no criminal background, according to Scaduto.
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