Illinois – An Illinois man pleaded guilty this week to the first-degree murder of his former girIfriend, 24-year-old AIexis. The plea follows the fatal shooting of the woman two years ago, at the apartment they previously shared. The 27-year-old defendant, E. Metsger, is scheduled for sentencing in June, and faces a sentence of more than four decades to natural life in prison, with no possibility of parole.
In Nov. 2023, the defendant called 911, stating he was at the police department and needed to be arrested. He confessed to shooting the woman at their shared residence in Illinois. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found the victim unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds. A firearm and several discharged casings were discovered in the living room. The defendant admitted to retrieving the firearm from a case in the bedroom, loading it, and shooting the victim multiple times.
Following his confession, the 27-year-old defendant was arrested without incident. The local police department, the Sheriff’s Department, and Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigation Unit conducted a thorough investigation, which included the collection of physical evidence and video footage from the scene. The 27-year-old man was charged with four counts of first-degree murder. He was denied pretrial release and held without bond at the county jail.
According to the victim’s parent, her daughter’s former partner had been very jealous of the victim’s independence and had been making her life miserable prior to the shooting. The woman had advised her daughter against meeting with the man on the day of the incident, but the victim chose to go, believing her former partner had promised not to harm her.
On the day of the shooting, the victim told her parent that her former partner asked her to come over to the apartment they had shared and to bring a dog they had adopted together while dating, so he could see it one last time. The victim’s mom reportedly told her daughter that ‘she doesn’t feel good about this and told her not to go’. The victim’s mom remembered how her daughter reassured her, saying that the defendant had promised not to harm her. “He was very jealous of her not spending all of her time with him. He was just making her life miserable,” the victim’s mom reportedly said.