Marshall was sentenced to 12 years after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder.

A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted count. It is not an open accusation. On Sept. 24, 2026, Judge Karen E. Wall sentenced Tichina Marshall in People v. Tichina Marshall, 2025-CF-399, after Marshall pleaded guilty that day to attempt first-degree murder, a Class X felony. The term is 12 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections and 3 years of mandatory supervised release, and she must serve 85 percent of the prison sentence.

On May 26, 2025, Danville police responded to the former Wendy's on North Vermilion Street. The victim was on the floor, bleeding uncontrollably and nearly unconscious, after a stab wound to the head. The State's Attorney's Office said the victim had been speaking with a manager in a small office when Marshall entered with a knife, said "I am going to kill you," and struck the victim at least twice in the face and once on top of the head. Vermilion County First and the State's Attorney's Office described a 3-centimeter-deep stab wound to the head and a fractured skull. A threat to kill the victim about a month earlier, at the same Wendy's, was also reported, and the May 26 attack was captured on surveillance. That is the account the plea resolved.

The New York Post reported that an aggravated battery count was dropped and that Marshall pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder. The State's Attorney's Office release focuses on that plea and the sentence. Vermilion County State's Attorney Jacqueline Lacy said the sentence reflects the violent nature of the case and the devastating injuries, and that no sentence undoes the lasting effects. The New York Post reported that the Wendy's location is permanently closed. A closed restaurant is background. The judgment is the guilty plea, the 12-year term, the three years of supervised release, and the requirement that she serve 85 percent.