Des Plaines man charged in Bensenville slaying

A 27-year-old Des Plaines man has been charged in the Sunday stabbing death of a Bensenville woman.

Victor Tornez-Sanchez is being held on $2.5 million bail, charged with the first-degree murder of his former girlfriend, 32-year-old Olivia Renteria-Bravo.

Prosecutors said Tornez-Sanchez waited in a vehicle outside the woman's home Sunday night on the 700 block of Parkside Lane for her to return from a date with her new boyfriend. When Renteria-Bravo got out of her boyfriend's vehicle, officials said Tornez-Sanchez ran toward her, stabbed her three times and fled.

Bensenville police responded to a 911 call just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday and found Renteria-Bravo unresponsive and lying in a large pool of blood outside her apartment.

She appeared to have been stabbed once in her right chest, once in her right torso near her rib and once in her right biceps.

Renteria-Bravo was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she died as a result of her injuries.

Officials said Tornez-Sanchez fled to Chicago after the killing where he bought a new cellphone and created a new Facebook account, which he used to contact a sister. They said he told his sister he needed to "arrange to get money because he needed to go to Mexico."

He was then arrested Monday in Elgin.

Tornez-Sanchez allegedly told police he purposefully went to her home with a knife and planned to "do something to her."

He also said he intended to hurt the new boyfriend but "ultimately decided not to do that."

Court records show the victim had an order of protection against Tornez-Sanchez after a June 2015 case in which Tornez-Sanchez allegedly punched Renteria-Bravo and hit her sister with a part of a crib.

He also has three domestic violence cases in Cook County.

"Domestic violence continues to be a thorn in the side of society," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a written statement following Tornez-Sanchez's bail hearing.

"The allegations in this case demonstrate the sad, tragic and at times permanent effects of domestic violence."

Bensenville police Chief Frank Kosman said the DuPage County Major Crimes Task Force and the Elgin Police Department assisted in the investigation.

Tornez-Sanchez's next court appearance is scheduled for July 6 in front of Judge John Kinsella in courtroom 4000.