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Man charged with stabbing ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in laundromat parking lot: Police

JOLIET (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A man is accused of stabbing his former girlfriend's new boyfriend outside a Joliet laundromat.

Joliet Police responded to Rt 30 Laundromat at 905 Plainfield Road, at about 12:45 p.m. Saturday, for a report that someone had been stabbed.


Police saw a man in the laundromat parking lot holding a knife, told him to drop it, he did and was taken into custody.

Police said the man, 26-year-old Oscar Nicolas Alonso Ortiz, is alleged to have had a prior romantic relationship with the victim's girlfriend.

The victim, an 18-year-old man, was hospitalized with a non-life threatening stab wound to the chest.

Alonso Ortiz is charged with aggravated battery and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

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