Glendale Heights Man Sentenced To 32 Years For 2015 Murder

GLENDALE HEIGHTS, IL — A Glendale Heights man has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for the 2015 murder of a 19-year-old Aurora man at a graduation party in unincorporated Glen Ellyn.

Alberto Jimenez, 23, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated battery in January in connection with the murder of Tehavis Price. Jimenez was sentenced to 30 years for the murder charge and 2 years for the aggravated battery charge, which he will serve consecutively.

According to DuPage County State's Attorney's Office, police were called to a party on Prairie Avenue on June 6, 2015, for a report of a fight in progress. When police got to the scene, police found Price and another victim with stab wounds. Price and the other victim were taken to a local hospital, where Price was pronounced dead.

After an investigation, police discovered that Jimenez came to the party and stabbed one victim in the abdomen as they sat in a car. Price exited the car, police say, and approached Jimenez, who stabbed him in the upper body multiple times before fleeing the scene.

Jimenez was taken into custody the following morning and has remained at the DuPage County Jail since his arrest.

DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a statement, "This afternoon, five years after the violent murder of Tehavis Price, Judge McGimpsey sentenced Alberto Jimenez to a well-deserved 32 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. The senseless murder of this young man however, will be felt by those who loved Tehavis for the rest of their lives."

Jimenez must serve 100 percent of the first-degree murder sentence and 50 percent of the aggravated battery sentence before he becomes eligible for parole.