ROCKFORD, Ill. — A woman who stabbed another woman so severely at a school bus stop that the victim required an appendix removal has been found guilty.
Police were called to the 3500 block of Elm Street, near the Rockford Ridge Apartments (formerly Concord Commons), around 8:25 a.m. on May 2, 2023.
According to Rockford Police, four women were dropping their children off at a bus stop when an argument broke out and escalated into a physical fight. The report said the fight stemmed from an earlier encounter between two of the women’s children.
During the altercation, 31-year-old Shatay Barney stabbed 30-year-old Lenora Fields with a box-cutter-like knife. The Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office said Fields suffered a severe wound to her torso with part of her intestines exposed. She also sustained a lacerated liver, slicing wounds to her face, bicep, and abdomen, and her appendix had to be removed.
Barney was found guilty of Aggravated Battery and faces up to five years in prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced on November 13, 2025.
Other women involved—Andriana Carothers, 28, Ashlee Morris, 28, and Fields—were initially charged with Felony Mob Action. Carothers was found guilty of disorderly conduct, while charges against Morris and Fields were dismissed.
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