Karen Aphour – 30 Year Old Ghanaian Global Policy Student Gone After a Dispute Over ‘Routine Household Chores’ → Brother Charged

Authorities said an Evanston man hacked his sister to death with a 15-inch butcher’s knife after she complained he was not doing enough housework. Karen Aphour, 30, was found lying in a pool of her blood on the kitchen floor of the home she shared with her mother and siblings in the 100 block of Callan Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, according to prosecutors. Evanston Fire Department paramedics rushed her to St. Francis Hospital, but she was pronounced dead shortly before 10 p.m., police said. Andy Aphour, her 26-year-old brother, is charged with the first-degree murder of his sister.

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