Police bodycam footage captured Anthony Jimenez, a 26-year-old Illinois man, admitting to fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Jessica Reyes, 24, after a domestic argument in a Villa Park apartment.
Villa Park police responded to a call reporting a domestic altercation on July 17, 2024, around 10.50 a.m. in the 1600 block of South Michigan Avenue. The bodycam video showed Jimenez met officers at the door with blood on his hands and chest. He tried explaining what had happened.
The first responders can also be seen administering life-saving measures to Reyes in a bedroom. At one point, she was breathing, but they failed to revive her. She was rushed to the local hospital, where she was pronounced dead around 11.26 a.m…