ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A St. Louis woman has been charged with the stabbing death of her live-in boyfriend.

55 year old Joyce Burgess is charged with Second Degree Murder and Armed Criminal Action in connection with the death of 54 year old Terrall Sedgwick.

Burgess is held on $350,000 bond.

Police say both lived in the 300 block of South Grand and Sunday evening around 7-o’clock Burgess stabbed Sedgwick in the chest.  He was prnounced dead on the scene.

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