Heartless mother kills her 5 month old boy and then attempts fake suicide on herself at the Diplomat Motel in the 5200 block of North Lincoln Avenue

A 5-month-old baby boy was killed and his mother seriously wounded in an apparent murder-suicide attempt at a motel on North Lincoln Avenue this morning, authorities said.

The child and mother were found in the Diplomat Motel in the 5200 block of North Lincoln Avenue around 10:30 a.m., police said, citing preliminary information.

Police sources said it appeared the woman stabbed the baby and then herself.

A 5-month-old child was dead at the scene and a woman was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, according to a Fire Department spokesman.

Officers found the baby in the motel room's bathroom, the sources said.