Woman charged with fatally stabbing Antone Sims in West Pullman apartment


A woman has been accused of fatally stabbing Antone L. Sims on Saturday night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Vanessa Sanders | Chicago Police

Vanessa Sanders | Chicago Police


Vanessa Sanders faces first-degree murder charges for the 11:10 p.m. attack in the 11500 block of South Perry, Chicago Police announced Tuesday.

The 28-year-old Sims was arguing with Sanders in a first-floor apartment when she stabbed him in the chest with a knife and then fled the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Sims, of the 100 block of West Devoe Drive in southwest suburban Oswego, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m., authorities said.

Sanders, 38, of the 5000 block of South Winchester, is due in bond court Wednesday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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