Detectives question person of interest in River North stabbing death

Police are questioning a person of interest in a fatal stabbing last month in the River North neighborhood.

Detectives took a man into custody for questioning in connection with the March 23 stabbing death of 55-year-old Miguel Beedle, Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Wednesday.

“He’s not charged but we have an adult male person of interest being questioned. We’re not releasing any names. But he is a person of interest in the investigation based on his whereabouts at the murder [scene],” Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun-Times.

“The interrogations are going on currently, so I’m very limited in what I can say,” Guglielmi said. “But, there is no indication at this point that [the victim] was targeted or that this was pre-meditated. There was some type of physical altercation.”

Guglielmi said he was stabbed following an altercation in the first block of West Hubbard.

Beedle walked out of the alley at 2:27 a.m. in the 400 block of North State after suffering a stab wound to his neck, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Beedle, who lived in northwest suburban Park Ridge, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 2:42 a.m.

An autopsy determined Beedle died of his stab wound and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.