http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/dezerai-gardner/Latest news about Dezerai Gardneren-usFri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:08 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/06/02/woman-gets-7-years-for-fatally-stabbing-mothers-boyfriend-in-rogers-park-during-2013-argument/<p>By JORDAN OWEN<br /> Chicago Sun-Times Wire<br /> <img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/06/pub_showfront.asp_-300x300.jpg" alt="Dezerai Gardner | Illinois Dept. of Correections" width="300" height="300" class="size-full wp-image-26138" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/06/pub_showfront.asp_-300x300.jpg 300w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/06/pub_showfront.asp_-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dezerai Gardner | Illinois Dept. of Correections</p><br /> A North Side woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stabbing her mother’s boyfriend, <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/anthony-price/">Anthony Price</a>, to death in the Rogers Park neighborhood in 2013.</p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/dezerai-gardner/">Dezerai Gardner</a>, now 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 24 before Judge Thomas Byrne, according to Cook County court records.</p> <p>About 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2013, Gardner stabbed the 35-year-old Price in the chest during a domestic argument in the 7300 block of North Seeley Avenue, authorities said at the time.<br /> <span id="more-26135"></span><br /> <img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/06/f6287c2200d1d650309d9ca1606d8ee3-225x300.jpg" alt="Anthony Price | photo provided" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-26139" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Anthony Price | photo provided</p></p> <p>Price, a Dolton resident, was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston at 3:10 p.m. that day, authorities said.</p> <p>According to Price’s mother, the stabbing happened during an altercation between her son and Gardner’s mother. A police source confirmed that Gardner was the daughter of Price’s girlfriend.</p> <p>Byrne sentenced Gardner to seven years in prison on May 24, according to court records.</p> <p>She was booked into the Logan Correctional Center to begin serving her sentence Wednesday, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.</p> Jeff MayesFri, 02 Jun 2017 15:55:08 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/06/02/woman-gets-7-years-for-fatally-stabbing-mothers-boyfriend-in-rogers-park-during-2013-argument/Anthony PriceDezerai Gardner