An Aurora man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his mother, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.
According to information presented in court by Kane County First Assistant State’s Attorney Christine Bayer, Abel Quinones-Herstad, 23, stabbed his mother, Edith Gonzalez-Alarcon, 55, multiple times with a knife on July 14, 2022, causing her death, a news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.
Quinones-Herstand then traveled to his brother’s home in Wisconsin, stating that he had done something bad to their mother and couldn’t go back, according to the release.
The Aurora Police Department was contacted for a welfare check at Gonzalez-Alarcon’s home on the first block of Jackson Place in Aurora, the news release said, and officers responding to the location on July 15 found her body in a closet. A knife was recovered from underneath a rug in the living room, according to the release.
Quinones-Herstad, who was still in Wisconsin, was then taken into custody by the West Allis Police Department, the release said. An autopsy ultimately found that Gonzalez-Alarcon had been stabbed 26 times, officials said.
Quinones-Herstad later agreed to the 38-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to first-degree murder, according to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office. He must serve the full sentence, but receives credit for 1,243 days served in the Kane County jail, officials said.