Boyfriend arrested after woman stabbed to death in Belmont Central: police

Charges are pending against a man after his girlfriend was stabbed to death Tuesday on the Northwest Side.

Authorities found the woman lying on a bedroom floor with stab wounds to her neck about 9:40 p.m. in the 2400 block of North Marmora Avenue, according to Chicago police.

Flor Emire Navarrete-Soto, 29, was pronounced dead on the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy ruled her death a homicide.

Officers arrested a 34-year-old man at the scene when they arrived, police said.

Police sources said the man was her boyfriend, and that the incident was domestic-related. He had self-inflicted lacerations to his wrist and neck, and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

Charges were pending Wednesday afternoon.

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