Suspect in stabbing of 14-year-old girl at Indiana baseball game is illegal immigrant who was deported in 2018

An illegal immigrant who was previously deported in 2018 has been arrested in connection to the stabbing of a 14-year-old girl in Indiana while she was watching her brother's baseball game on Saturday. The comes amid the ongoing immigration crisis at the southern border.

According to the Lake County Sheriff's Department, 26-year-old Dimas Gabriel Yanez was arrested as he was running through a cornfield on Sunday. The stabbing took place on Sunday and the girl is recovering from her injuries.

Yanez was on the run after a suspect "stabbed a 14-year-old girl in the hand Saturday, August 31st at a baseball game in unincorporated Lowell, Indiana." According to ABC7, police said that the 14-year-old girl had been watching her brother's baseball game when the attack occurred. The police said that the stabbing happened at around 3:45 pm local time at the baseball fields near 17401 Morse Street in Lowell, Indiana.

The suspect attempted to stab the girl's mother when she intervened. After he was arrested and placed in custody, the Sheriff's department wrote, "It’s believed he was in the process of cutting his hair to change his appearance just before he was arrested. Investigators have learned Yanez had been deported to Honduras in 2018 and may have been engaged in criminal activity across the United States since returning to the country illegally. The US Department of Homeland Security has been notified of his arrest today."

A baseball coach who witnessed the incident told ABC7 that the suspect jumped on the girl, pushed her over, then pulled out a knife and "started swinging it on her." She was stabbed in the hand.