Homeless man gets 60 years for fatally stabbing visiting grad student in unprovoked Loop attack

Homeless man gets 60 years for fatally stabbing visiting grad student in unprovoked Loop attack

Judge John F. Lyke Jr. handed down the maximum sentence to Tony Robinson, calling the murder of Anat Kimchi a “heinous, senseless and brutal crime." The attack was one of several shocking cases examined in a Chicago Sun-Times investigation into violent attacks downtown.

Homeless man gets 60 years for fatally stabbing visiting grad student in the Loop

Tony Robinson, a homeless man who fatally stabbed visiting graduate student Anat Kimchi in 2021 as she walked in the Loop, was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum allowed — 60 years in prison. Cook County Circuit Judge John F. Lyke Jr. said the murder was a “heinous, senseless and brutal crime” that took the life of a gifted criminal justice researcher “whose vision was to improve the very system that we are a part of.” The sentencing capped a biza…