A man was accused of stabbing his sister to death while she held her eight-month-old child.

Richfield police said Guuci Beyena Mokonnen, 24, stabbed his 22-year-old sister in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 735 E. 77th St.

Police were called to the area just before 10 p.m. on Saturday on a report that a woman and her young child were bleeding.

The woman had suffered stab wounds to her head and hand and a severe laceration to her neck.

Paramedics tried to treat the woman, but she died at the scene. Her child was not injured.

Residents at the apartment complex told us they had to be evacuated for a time while the Hennepin County crime lab was on scene.

Bloomington police officers took Mokonnen into custody at Mall of America after he called their department and stated that he was involved in the incident.

Richfield police forwarded the case to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office for charging.

The victim's child is now with his father.