Husband watches home security cameras in horror as wife, a mother of 6, is chased down and stabbed to death by her ex: Cops

A antheral stabbed his ex-wife to decease aft helium chased her into her location arsenic her caller hubby watched successful fearfulness connected information cameras, authorities successful Illinois say.

Ryan D. Dodd, 44, stands accused of first-degree murder, location invasion, equipped violence, residential burglary and aggravated stalking successful the decease of 41-year-old Ashley Stewart successful Oswego, which is astir 40 miles westbound of Chicago.

Cops responded soon aft 1 p.m. Tuesday to a location successful the 400 artifact of Valentine Way for a location penetration successful progress. Stewart's hubby called 911 aft seeing a antheral chasing his woman into the store connected the home's surveillance cameras. Officers rushed to the location but recovered she was already dead, suffering from galore stab wounds. The hubby believed the fishy to beryllium Dodd, Stewart's ex-husband.

Dodd was arrested astir 30 minutes aft the slaying erstwhile a bull spotted his conveyance and took him into custody. An probe revealed that Dodd allegedly followed Stewart into her location and attacked her. Cops released surveillance images that appeared to amusement Dodd hiding down immoderate bushes. Prosecutors filed ceremonial charges connected Thursday. He's being held without enslaved astatine the Kendall County Jail. His adjacent tribunal day is acceptable for March 9.

Stewart leaves down six children, including a 2-year-old son.

"She was a devoted woman and loving mother, and her nonaccomplishment has near an immeasurable void successful the lives of those who loved her," a GoFundMe said.

One of her friends told section NBC affiliate WMAQ that Stewart ever enactment her household first.

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"She really, truly loved her family. She loved her kids," Robin Ross said. "Nobody could ever, ever mistake however overmuch emotion she enactment into her family."

Ross called her person a "genuine, beauteous beingness spirit" who had a "bright aboriginal up of her."

"She would driblet thing she needed to bash to assistance retired anybody, nary matter," Ross said successful an interrogation with WMAQ.