GLENVIEW, Ill. (AP) - The family of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago boy stabbed to death earlier this month say their anguish over his killing is heightened by a judge’s decision to release the suspect on house arrest.
A Cook County judge last week placed the 16-year-old suspect on home electronic monitoring until his next court date, on Sept. 9. He charged with second-degree murder in Elias Valdez’s death in the Cook County village of Glenview.
Valdez’s family plans to protest the juvenile’s detention on house arrest next Sunday outside of the Glenview Police Department in the north suburban Chicago community.
“It’s not fair for him to stay home. We want him to be in jail,” Valdez’s sister, Elizabeth Valdez, told WLS-TV.
Elias Valdez was found along a road on Aug. 5 with a stab wound to his chest, Glenview police said. He died at a hospital the same day. Police said his killing was Glenview’s first homicide since 2004.
The slain teen’s mother, Marcela Fierros, said she’s both angry and missing her son.
“I’m just asking for justice,” she said in Spanish.
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