Mom and Daughter Accused of Stabbing and Punching Chicago School Officials After Child Gets in Trouble

A mother-daughter duo picking up a child from a Chicago elementary school went on the attack in the schoolyard, stabbing and pummeling a school administrator and a security guard.

Debbie Wilson, 45, and her 26-year-old daughter, also named Debbie Wilson, appeared in court on Saturday, where relatives wept and cried out that the arrests and charges were not fair. Bail was set at $100,000 and $125,000, respectively.

The altercation took place at Bond Elementary in Englewood on the South Side at about 4 p.m. Tuesday when an argument broke out between the Wilsons and the school official. The younger Wilson, armed with a 4-inch knife, stabbed the administrator in the back and slashed the security guard’s arm, according to Cook County prosecutors. A 13-year-old boy who tried to intervene also sustained cuts, reports the Chicago Tribune.

As the knife-wielding Wilson was knifing, the older Wilson began throwing punches, according to prosecutors.

The Debbie Wilsons’ were there to retrieve the elder Wilson’s 14-year-old daughter, who had gotten into trouble at school. After the fight, they fled, the Tribune reports, but Chicago Police tracked them down. Now, each Debbie Wilson faces five counts of aggravated battery for the alleged trouble they caused at the school, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

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