CHICAGO _ A man was arrested in Kankakee County, Ill., after a 2-year-old boy was found dead in Chicago, his throat deeply slashed, at his home in the Little Village neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Officers were called to the 2700 block of South Avers Avenue about 1:55 p.m. and found Mateo Garcia Aguayo's body in a trash bag on the kitchen floor, police said.
Mateo had "suffered severe trauma from lacerations and fatal stab wounds," police said in a statement. Police sources said the wounds were so severe, the boy was nearly decapitated.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:32 p.m., the Cook County medical examiner said.
A man considered a "person of interest" was taken into custody by Chicago agents of the FBI and Illinois State Police following a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon in Kankakee County, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a tweet.
The man was being returned to Chicago to be questioned by detectives, he said.
Earlier, at the scene, grieving relatives stood near 28th Street as police came and went. Officers guarding the edge of the crime scene offered their squad cars to relatives if they wanted to warm up.
Avers was blocked from 27th Street to 28th Street, along with its east alley.
