A man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for murdering a nursing student he met on Snapchat while he was AWOL from a pending felony DUI case. Richard Chavez, 28, of Oak Park, has pleaded guilty to the murder of 20-year-old Charisma Ehresman three years ago, according to court records.
Ehresman’s body was found in the back seat of her car, which was parked in the 5900 block of West Iowa Street, on January 28, 2022. The Cook County medical examiner determined she died from strangulation and smothering in a homicide.
Prosecutors said Ehresman never returned home after going to Chavez’s residence on the evening of January 23, not long after meeting him online. Her family filed a missing person report two days later…