Crime & Safety
Police: Former Lover Attacked Woman and Husband In Their Bed With Knife
The couple said they let a woman spend the night in their apartment and offered to give her a ride in the morning. Police said she repaid them with threats of murder.
A Joliet woman was arrested Saturday for attacking an ex-girlfriend and her husband in their bed with a knife, according a Tinley Park police report.
Jamie L. Katro, 33, of the 400 block of Cayuga Street in Joliet, was charged with battery, domestic battery and aggravated assault and arrested in an apartment complex in the 17200 block of 71st Court.
Police said Katro woke the couple early Saturday morning, standing over their bed brandishing a knife and telling another person through a cell phone that she would soon be going to jail for murder.
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Katro struck the woman on her head and pulled her out of the bed, injuring the woman's back, police said.
The man told police he managed to knock the knife away and wrestle Katro to the floor. The woman said she then hid the knife in the bedroom closet.
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When police arrived, they found Katro pinned to a bloody floor. The man sustained a small cut on his finger. He and his wife refused medical treatment, though Katro was taken to Palos Community Hospital because she complained of chest pains, police said.
The couple also refused to sign complaints against Katro. Police signed them instead.
The couple told police Katro was spending the night in their home and planning to hitch a ride in the morning to take care of her car title at the Secretary of State's office.
