One dead, one injured after fight at graduation party

One person was stabbed to death and another injured in a large fight during a high school graduation party late Saturday in an unincorporated neighborhood near Glen Ellyn, DuPage County Sheriff's police said Sunday.

Killed in the melee was a 19-year-old man, ABC 7 is reporting. His girlfriend remains hospitalized with injuries. The victims have not been identified.

Friends of the young man who was stabbed said he was from Aurora, according to ABC 7. While the graduation party was for students who graduated from Glenbard West High School, he was not a recent graduate, friends told ABC 7.

Relatives of the party host and other partygoers said the alleged attacker was a high school student who many of them know.

"It was calm, everybody was just dancing and listening to music and then a fight broke out," Joe Lucki, 18, who was at the party, told ABC 7. "It was just too much."

Sheriff's deputies responded to the fight on the 2N300 block of Prairie Avenue about 10:30 p.m., according to a statement from the sheriff's department, which continues to investigate the death.

Sheriff's police did not release details about the altercation but said it was an isolated case and there is no further threat to the community.

"It was something that was supposed to be good turned really bad," said the woman who threw the party for her son. She did not want to be identified.

At least 60 youths attended the backyard celebration. The woman said it was her 19-year-old sister and her sister's boyfriend who were stabbed by another teenage partygoer. The attack happened as the party was ending and the victims were trying to back their car out of the driveway, she told ABC 7.

"He just walked up, opened the door, punched her and stabbed her," the woman said. "She did not know she was stabbed. The boyfriend came out to protect her or defend her and the other boy stabbed him up pretty bad."

Carolyn Lorenz, Lucki's mother, said the incident has left a community devastated.

"It's so sad, it's so sad," Lorenz told ABC 7. "I don't know why kids have to behave that way. It's really sad."

Investigators spent several hours interviewing partygoers. Officials declined to comment about whether a weapon has been recovered.

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at (630) 407-2400.