Homeless man gets 60 years for fatally stabbing visiting grad student in the Loop
Tony Robinson was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 2021 fatal stabbing of Anat Kimchi, a visiting graduate student and researcher, in Chicago’s Loop. Cook County Circuit Judge John F. Lyke Jr. imposed the maximum sentence allowed, describing the unprovoked attack as a heinous and senseless crime.
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 bizarre…
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