A fight broke out in the middle of the courtroom on Tuesday after the man accused of killing his 15-year-old partner pleaded guilty to her family.
“I pray that God will take this anger away from me one day, I don’t know when, but one day, so I can see it or think differently about it. But I don’t know when.” [je pourrai y arriver]», confirmed Anna Machado, the victim’s mother, after leaving the courtroom, according to photos from ABC7 in Chicago.
Frank DeLeon Jr. (19 years old) pleaded guilty on Tuesday at the opening of his murder trial, which sparked a quarrel before the judge between the victim’s family and the accused’s family, according to American media.
The latter agreed on Tuesday to spend 45 years behind bars, without the possibility of being released before 22 and a half years, because he shot his partner, Diamond Alvarez, to death 22 times in January 2022.
Then the mother of the young victim, who was 15 years old, stood up to testify about the repercussions of the crime before the court. She described the accused as a monster, and accused the young man’s mother, who was in the room, of raising him. road.
However, when she sat down again, she rushed towards the accused before security intercepted her and was in turn pushed by the killer’s mother. Meanwhile, the victim’s uncle allegedly threw himself on the accused, before security took him out of the room.
The fighting lasted only a few minutes before calm returned to the stadium.
“It was wrong of me, and it was wrong of us, because we are not monsters. But I have a lot of hate, because I want my daughter back, and what he did was terrible,” she said. […] And [de le voir] Ana Machado added, according to the New York Post, “He was laughing at me. It was a big mistake and I’m sorry.”
The accused is expected to receive his formal sentence on Thursday.
