No bond for teen accused in decapitation
Bond was denied Friday for a Chicago teenager charged with murder after prosecutors said he killed his aunt’s boyfriend, cut off the man’s head and left it on her bed as a Christmas present.
Alexis Valdez, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in death of Sylvester Diaz-Hernandez, 41, at the Chicago apartment he shared with Valdez and Valdez’s aunt.
Prosecutors accuse Valdez of hitting Diaz-Hernandez in the head multiple times with a hammer sometime overnight Tuesday. Valdez then dismembered the body and cut off Diaz’s head, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Kingsley Sawyers said.
Valdez then called 911 to report the body, prosecutors said.
Sawyers said when the emergency operator asked Valdez if he performed CPR, “the defendant laughed and told the 911 operator that the victim had been decapitated.”
Police arrived Christmas morning to find the body and Valdez covered with blood, admitting he killed the man, officials said.
“The defendant also admitted that he was angry with his aunt and the victim, and that if his aunt had come home and seen the victim’s body, then he would have killed her as well,” Sawyers said.
Prosecutors said the violence came after Valdez’s aunt asked him to move out of the apartment. Valdez moved in about six months ago under the condition he work and go to school, officials said. He was asked to leave when he stopped working.
Valdez does not have a telephone listing in Chicago. It was not immediately clear if he has an attorney.