Man who helped grad student stabbed downtown tells jury the alleged killer later pulled a knife on him

A man who ran to help visiting graduate student Anat Kimchi after she was fatally stabbed in a random attack downtown in June 2021 testified Monday that he saw defendant Tony Robinson attack her and that Robinson later threatened him with a knife.

The witness, Tavon Jones, said he was homeless at the time. He told the court that he had previously seen Robinson, who lived in a tent on Lower Wacker Drive, walking around the area.

Robinson, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in Kimchi's killing.

The 31-year-old University of Maryland graduate student was killed on a sunny Saturday afternoon on June 19, 2021, near Wacker Drive and Van Buren Street, a short distance from Willis Tower.

Kimchi's murder was one of several shocking cases examined in a Chicago Sun-Times investigation last year into violent attacks in the downtown area.

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