CHICAGO — A Chicago woman is back behind bars, accused of the near same violent crime for which she had been paroled two years earlier.
Veronica Wilson, 55, was arrested Friday for stabbing a man in the neck in a March 5 attack in West Garfield Park after their “intimate relationship” ended, Cook County prosecutor Tom Lahood said during the suspect’s preliminary hearing Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
According to court documents, Wilson has been charged with felony counts of attempted murder and domestic battery, mirroring charges she faced in the fatal November 2014 stabbing of her then-boyfriend, 46-year-old Andre Brown.
Wilson was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison for Brown’s slaying, but was paroled in August 2020, Lahood said during Sunday’s proceedings, noting the defendant also has multiple drug convictions.
The 43-year-old victim in the latest attack has undergone one of two planned surgeries to repair damage above his collarbone and has lost feeling in his left arm, the Sun-Times reported.
Wilson was ordered held without bail, despite her public defender’s arguments that she lives with her daughter and takes care of her four grandchildren, according to the newspaper.
Wilson’s next court date is slated for Monday.