A Joliet man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 stabbing of a 20-year-old woman inside the Evergreen Terrace apartment complex in Joliet.
Drumaine McKinley, 37, received the sentence May 17, according to a release from the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office.
In March, a jury found him guilty of fatally stabbing Joslyn Woods on the morning of Sept. 3, 2014, in the laundry room of a Joliet apartment building in the 300 block of Broadway.
Prosecutors said McKinley stabbed the young woman so many times that the pathologist who performed the autopsy could not accurately determine the number of wounds she suffered. The jury made an additional finding that the murder was brutal and heinous, making the defendant eligible for a life sentence.
Neither the victim nor McKinley residents of the apartment complex.
During the encounter, McKinley was captured on a security camera striking and slashing wildly at the frightened woman and then leaving her to die on the laundry room floor. The defendant exited the laundry room at one point, but he returned to stab her more times before his final departure at 6:32 a.m.
The defendant fled on foot to his mother’s house on Joliet’s East Side, discarding his bloody shirt and socks in trash cans along the way.
A police dog tracked the defendant from Cass and Ottawa Street, where his shirt was discovered, to Union Station where his socks were located, and finally to his mother’s house. When the canine unit arrived, other officers already had found McKinley hiding in a wooded area.