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Child stabbed and left in burning home fights to survive
Posted: 03.06.2011 at 10:22 PM
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The search continues for the person or persons who stabbed a mother and her child, then left both to die in a fire.

Police have identified the woman as Shakietha Ward, 21.  Her daughter, also stabbed, remains in critical condition.  Police are not yet identifying the child.

Flint Police say they found the two at an apartment on Glenbrook Circle in Flint around 2:00 a.m. Friday. 

Rescue workers pulled the child and mother from the fire.  Ward died at the scene.

Flint Police tell NBC25 they are would like anyone with any information on who committed this heinous crime to call Flint Police at 810-237-6800.

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