25-Year Sentence for Last Teen in West Chicago Beating Death

The third and last teen in the 2013 West Chicago beating death was sentenced to 25 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Thursday.

Jonathan Jimenez, 21 of Aurora entered a plea of guilty to First Degree Murder in front of Judge Daniel Guerin, who handed down the sentence.

On March 11, Alejandro Martinez, 19 entered a plea of guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to fourteen years in the IDOC.

On March 3, Anthony Rios, 19, also of West Chicago, entered a plea of guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 17 years in the IDOC.

“This morning, the last of three men charged in the murder of Thomas Tecuatl was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Illinois Department of Corrections,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said in a written release. “It is my sincerest hope that with Mr. Jimenez’s admission of guilt and sentencing, the family and friends of Mr. Tecuatl will now be able to find some measure of closure in this horrible chapter in their lives.

On the morning of Nov. 17, 2013, Rios, Martinez and Jimenez went to a party on Pomeroy Street near Route 59 in West Chicago, prosecutors said. Tecuatl was also at that party. An altercation occurred and Tecuatl allegedly pulled a knife.

After Tecuatl left the party, he was chased by numerous partygoers, including Rios, Martinez and Jimenez.

According to the charges, as Tecuatl attempted to flee, he slipped and fell on the wet pavement, dropping his knife. Tecuatl was beaten and co-defendant Jimenez allegedly grabbed the knife that Tecuatl had dropped and fatally stabbed him.