A man has been given a 20-year prison sentence for stabbing a Lincoln Park resident during a seemingly random home invasion that prosecutors said was an attempted murder.
The 25-year-old victim and his 28-year-old girlfriend were sleeping in their home in the 2000 block of North Clifton around 11:30 p.m. in June 2024 when Devion Allen, now 27, entered the residence, officials said.
Allen took a knife from the kitchen and attacked the man, stabbing him in the neck, chest, and both hands. Officials said Allen later admitted to “cutting” the victim “a few times” before fleeing after the man wrestled the knife away from him…