Man charged with hate crime in stabbing
On Friday, a Cortea Judge of Cook ordered a Portage Park man who expected accusations of hatred crimes for having allegedly stabbed a white woman whom he met in a street on the northwest side with a black man.
The prosecutors said that Ends Stathoulopoulos, 20, approached the couple while they were heading for the man’s home at Portage Park around 11 p.m. on July 8 and began to shout threats and racial insults.
The man left to try to defuse the situation, the prosecutors said, while the woman shouted in Stathoulopoulos to leave them alone. The man, who would have seen Stathoulopoulos holding a little knife, began to keep the woman away, but the woman underwent a deep cut on the top of her left wrist which needed four stitches.
Stathoulopoulos now faces two counts of hatred crimes and an aggravated battery leader with a deadly weapon. The prosecutors did not specify the rating between the two alleged victims, but said that Stathoulopoulos had called the woman “(explanive) lover”.
Stathoulopoulos presented itself on images of surveillance cameras crossing the street towards the woman, they said, and was also captured by moving away from the site of the alleged stabs with a knife in hand.
Schiller Park’s police arrested Stathoulopoulos on Wednesday in the West suburbs, according to the judicial archives.
Friday afternoon, judge Antara Nath Rivera ordered in Stathoulopoulos of his first appearance in the Leighton criminal courthouse on the grounds that he would have been motivated to act of “racial hatred” and had a recent story of arrests and convictions. A search in the judicial archives of the county of Cook did not immediately rendered the results for the criminal record will be referenced.
He is then ready to appear before a judge on August 6 in Skokie.
