A female suspect accused of stabbing a toddler to death in an Ohio supermarket parking lot sparked outrage after she was seen smiling and smirking in court.
Footage showed murder suspect Bionca Ellis, 33, giggling and unable to contain smiles as charges against her were read by a judge during an arraignment Monday.
PURE EVIL: Bionca Ellis, woman accused of stabbing 3-year-old Ohio boy to death in grocery store parking lot, smirks and giggles as the charges are read to her
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The murder suspect was criticized on X over her appalling courtroom behavior.
If you’re christian like myself, you have to believe in demons / spirits. Probably just a terrible scummy human but I believe all major criminals should have a priest bless them and expel any potential demons as a contingency for being possessed
— Lord Miles (@real_lord_miles) June 10, 2024
Demons walk amongst us
— Tammie McDonald
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only one of them was called pure evil and labelled racist by CNN and the rest of the Big Media.
guess which one? pic.twitter.com/epPJ7yU750
— batu (@qtomris) June 10, 2024
throw the damn book at this evil woman!!
who agrees?
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Ellis’ charges, including one count of aggravated murder and two counts of murder, stemmed from an unprovoked June 2 incident at a Giant Eagle supermarket near Cleveland.
3-year-old Julian Wood died following the incident.
R.I.P. Julian Wood
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The Daily Mail has more on the deadly attack on Julian and his mother, Margot, who was wounded:
Julian Wood spent the last moments of his life playing in his mother’s shopping cart as they went on a Monday afternoon grocery run.
Then a woman walked towards them at the crowded Giant Eagle in North Olmstead, Cleveland, holding a kitchen knife in her right hand.
The three-year-old boy’s mom Margot, 38, wheeled them past, but the woman stopped dead in her tracks, turned around, and followed them.
Less than six minutes later, Julian was bleeding to death on the parking lot asphalt as a badly wounded Margot pleaded with paramedics: ‘don’t worry about me’.
As first responders desperately gave the little boy CPR, his alleged murderer, Bionca Ellis, 32, was arrested a short walk away – still holding the bloodied knife.
Much of those minutes of terror from 2.58 to 3.04pm on June 2, and the chilling scenes that came before and after, were laid bare in newly released surveillance footage and police bodycam.
Ellis stole two knives earlier that day, police said, from a nearby Volunteers of America Thrift Store, and was caught on camera pacing back and forth in front of Giant Eagle.
At 2.58pm she headed inside, brandishing it as if it was a half-eaten chocolate bar, walking straight ahead and forcing Margot to swerve around her.
Barely as they passed, she immediately stopped, turned around, and followed – her sinister stalking documented from four camera angles.
Twenty-five seconds passed before Ellis emerged from a blind spot alone, and loitered awkwardly near the doors for them to catch up.
As they turned for the exit, Ellis waited for them to pass her, and was filmed on two more cameras following them outside.
Margot wheeled Julian to their red hatchback in the busy car park and popped the trunk to load the groceries inside.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Ellis allegedly unleashed her vicious attack on a mother and child she never met, and for no reason police can discern.
“I hear a scream, I look back, and she’s just stabbing,” one witness reportedly recalled.
In a solemn statement read in court, Wood’s father condemned Ellis for brutally cutting his son’s life short.
“There’s nothing that could ever replace my son, or anything my wife and I and our other kids are going through. It’s horrendous,” said Jared Wood.
A county court judge set Ellis bond at $5 million and she could potentially face the death penalty if convicted.