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$900K bail for woman charged in West Side stabbing death

DebrJean Jones / phofrom Chicago Police.

Debra Jean Jones / photo from Chicago Police.

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Bail was set Saturday at $900,000 for a woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman during what police called a domestic dispute Friday in Austin.

Debra Jean Jones, 54, is charged with first-degree murder.

Police said Jones and Shounya Burnett, 45, were arguing around 12:55 a.m. Friday in a first-floor apartment in the 1100 block of North Mayfield Avenue when Jones stabbed Burnett with a knife in the neck and chin.





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