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> http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...cousins13.html
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> Cops: Woman stabs cousin to death over french fries
>
> September 13, 2004
>
> BY MAUREEN O'DONNELL Staff Reporter
>
>
> "They'd known each other all their lives, but Antoinette Jenkins stabbed
> her
> cousin in the heart Sunday in an argument over french fries, Chicago
> Police
> said.
>
> Antoine Jenkins, 19, "died for a dollar,'' a police source said. "They got
> into an argument over a 99-cent box of White Castle french fries.''
>
> Antoinette Jenkins, also 19, fled after the stabbing and was found later
> Sunday in a hotel, said Austin District Lt. Wade Ingram.
>
> "She had all the White Castle stuff all over the hotel room,'' Ingram said
>
> Antoine's mother, Joyce Jenkins, said her heart goes out to her sister,
> Antoinette's mother.
>
> "It's my sister's daughter,'' she said quietly. "She's tore up, too.''
>
> And despite her grief, Joyce Jenkins made a public plea Sunday for people
> to
> be kind to one another.
>
> "They need to control it, think first, before they react,'' she said.
>
> The fight was "stupid, that's what it was,'' Joyce Jenkins said.
>
> She said she thinks her niece was intoxicated at the time of the stabbing
> outside 17 S. Leamington, next-door to where both cousins lived.
>
> "Antoine, he's not a violent child,'' his mother said, still speaking of
> him
> in the present tense. "He gets along with everybody.''
>
> The cousins had visited the White Castle at Madison and Pulaski, Joyce
> Jenkins said. Oddly, she is the manager of a White Castle at North and
> Central.
>
> "This morning, my sister called me and said they got to fightin,' '' Joyce
> Jenkins said. "They got to fightin,' arguin' about something, and
> Antoinette
> just got a knife and stabbed him. . . . over a hamburger or something.''
>
> Antoine attended Austin High School, his mother said.
>
> "My family is here with me, comforting me,'' Joyce Jenkins said. "Got to
> hold on.''
>
> Antoinette Jenkins was being held at the police department's Area 5
> facility, Ingram said."
>
> Spam, Spam, SPam, SPAM.
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