Erika Jett / Photo from Cook County Sheriff’s office
BY BRIAN SLODYSKO
Chicago Sun-Times
Erika Jett was ordered held on $500,000 bond Sunday after prosecutors claimed she fatally stabbed her boyfriend during a Thursday night fight in the Austin neighborhood.
Jett, 29, and her 30-year-old boyfriend, Rodney Wilson, got in a heated argument on Thursday night at their home in the 5100 block of West Fulton Street, said Assistant State’s Attorney Andres Almendarez.
The couple shouted at each other and exchanged blows in front of Wilson’s children before someone in the home eventually removed the kids from the room, prosecutors said.
But once the kids were gone, the dispute escalated. Jett grabbed a knife and attacked Wilson, stabbing him in his arm, chest and neck, prosecutors said. A witness at the home eventually persuaded Jett to drop the knife and then called 911, prosecutors said.
Wilson was lying on the floor of the residence, bleeding profusely, when first responders arrived, and Jett admitted stabbing him, according to a police report.
Wilson was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died within an hour, authorities said.
Jett was charged with murder and on Sunday she was ordered held on $500,000 bond and will be back in court Monday.