Law & Order column: Man gets 27 years for stabbing girl

Law & Order column: Man gets 27 years for stabbing girl

A man who critically wounded a child in a 2024 stabbing has been sentenced to 27 years in prison, according to Lake County prosecutors. Demetrius Fisher, 32, of Beach Park, pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to one count of attempted first-degree murder in the 2024 attack. The girl Fisher stabbed is the daughter of a woman with whom Fisher was in a dating relationship, authorities said. Police were called to a house in the 38000 block of North Manor Ave…