A 21-year-old West Side man is facing murder charges after allegedly stabbing a 42-year-old man whose body was found in the trunk of a car on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, police said.
Martin O. Molina, 21, was charged Thursday evening with one felony count of first-degree murder after being identified as the person who stabbed Felipe Villalobos-Calderon, whose body was found inside the trunk of a Cadillac parked on the street in the 2100 block of North Marmora Avenue in the city’s Belmont Central neighborhood, police said.
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Responding officers spotted Molina in the Cadillac’s driver’s seat, covered in blood, and he was taken into custody without incident, according to a police report that cited preliminary information. At least one knife was discovered in a nearby alley.
An autopsy Thursday determined Villalobos-Calderon, of the Portage Park neighborhood, died of multiple sharp force injuries, and his death was ruled a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Molina, who worked with the victim, is due in court Friday on the charge.
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