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Glendale Heights man pleads guilty to stabbings at 2015 graduation party

Posted January 28, 2020 12:00 am

By Timothy Edmonds Daily Herald correspondent

A 23-year-old Glendale Heights man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to stabbing two people - one fatally - at a 2015 graduation party, officials said.

Alberto Jimenez, of the 500 block of Gregory Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery for killing 19-year-old Tehavis Price of Aurora and wounding Verkita Vargas, then 19, of Chicago, outside a Glenbard West student's graduation party June 6, 2015, on the 2N300 block of Prairie Avenue near Glen Ellyn, according to a news release from the DuPage County state's attorney's office.

Price was stabbed six times - three in the chest and once each in the side, groin and shoulder - with a folding pocket knife as he tried protect Vargas, who was his girlfriend, after Jimenez attacked her, according to the release.

Jimenez, who has a violent criminal history as both an adult and juvenile, fled but was arrested the following day in Hanover Park.

Jimenez has been held in DuPage County jail on $3 million bail since his arrest. His next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 25.

Tehavis Price of Aurora, left, was fatally stabbed and Verkita Vargas of Chicago, his girlfriend, was wounded in an attack at a Glenbard West student's graduation party in 2015. On Tuesday, Alberto Jimenez, 23, of Glendale Heights pleaded guilty in the case. Courtesy of Verkita Vargas' family

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