Nov 29, 2009 10:02 pm US/Central
Chicago Teen Recovering From Stabbing
Andrea Thomas And Her Sister Were Attacked As They Sat In A Car
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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High school junior Andrea Thomas is recovering from a stabbing.
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Cynthia Hudson left her South Side home Sunday to go see her daughter in the hospital.
Andrea Thomas will likely be there for days, recovering from a stab wound that lacerated her liver and caused the Carver Military Academy junior to lose a large amount of blood.
CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
Hudson feared her daughter had lost her life.
"I went absolutely crazy," the mother said. "My daughter was telling me how the blood was rushing out of her side."
Thomas was injured on South Carpenter Street after being stabbed in the back. Andrea had been sitting in a car with her sister and two young children when a group of women smashed in the back window with a baseball bat.
"The two kids was in the back seat, and they had glass all in their face and hair," said Thomas' uncle, Samuel Philson.
Philson says his niece's children were traumatized.
"They were hysterical. They didn't know what happened," he said.
Thomas's family members say the women attacked the car to get at Andrea's older sister because of her relationship with an ex-boyfriend.
After the car had its window smashed in, Andrea and her older sister got out and began fighting. Initially, no one knew Andrea had been knifed, but then witnesses saw a massive amount of blood.
Andrea was rushed to the hospital in grave condition. That's when Hudson was notified and immediately began racing to the hospital, not knowing if her daughter was going to survive the trip to the hospital.
"I didn't know and then when I got there they sent the chaplain to me and I totally freaked then," Hudson said.
So far, police have made no arrests in the case, though they are talking to a person of interest.
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