Life Sentence for Illinois Man Who Murdered Ex-Girlfriend in Shared Apartment
NEW BADEN, IL — An Illinois man was handed a life sentence on Tuesday following his earlier admission of guilt in the murder of his former girlfriend, marking a grim end to a relationship that evidently still bore the weight of unresolved tensions. Emmet Metzger, 27, confessed to the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Alexis Maki last November in the apartment they had once shared, a crime that has left the community and Maki’s loved ones …