Bail was set at $1 million today for a Carpentersville woman charged with fatally stabbing a woman over the weekend while she was in a fight with another woman over being asked to leave a birthday party, police said.
Jacqueline S. Loyola, 18, of the 2100 block of Tepee Avenue was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Kassandra Caceres, 20, of Aurora. Loyola attended a bond hearing this morning in the Elgin branch court.
Loyola had a party Saturday night of about a dozen people to celebrate her 19th birthday. She had asked Caceres and a group of about six to seven people to leave, said Detective Sgt. Todd Shaver. He said the group originally was invited but then an argument ensued in which they were asked to leave.
Caceres and another woman then got into a fight outside the house when Loyola stabbed her in the back with a large kitchen knife, Shaver said. He said someone at the house called 911 at about 1:45 a.m. to report a stabbing.
Caceres' friends carried her and put her into a car to take her to a hospital, Shaver said. Around the same time, police and paramedics arrived, found Caceres unresponsive in the car and gave her first aid.
She was transported to Sherman Hospital in Elgin where she was pronounced dead, Shaver said. An autopsy is expected to be performed Tuesday.
Loyola was immediately arrested after making statements at the scene implicating herself in the stabbing, Shaver said. He said police recovered the knife.
She is next due in court on May 7.
