NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (NEWSnet./AP) — A 3-year-old boy stabbed by a woman in a grocery store parking lot in Ohio has died in what investigators believe was a random attack, police said.

The boy and his mother were going back to their vehicle after shopping at the North Olmsted Giant Eagle grocery on Monday when a woman ran at them with a knife, stabbing both of them, police said.

The boy later died at a hospital. The mother's injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

Officers arrested 32-year-old Bionca Ellis, of Cleveland, while she was walking away from the scene with a knife in her hand on Monday, police said. She was being held on a charge of aggravated murder.

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