Bail was set at $1 million Monday for a Carpentersville woman charged with fatally stabbing a guest at her 19th birthday party.
Jacqueline S. Loyola, who authorities said turns 19 Tuesday, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kassandra Caceres, 20, of Aurora.
Loyola, of the 2100 block of Tepee Avenue, was celebrating her birthday Saturday night when she asked Caceres and a group of about six others to leave the party after an argument, said Detective Sgt. Todd Shaver.
Caceres and another woman then got into a fight outside the house, and Loyola stabbed Caceres in the back with a large kitchen knife at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Shaver said. Caceres died later at Sherman Hospital in Elgin.
Loyola was arrested after making statements at the scene implicating herself in the stabbing, Shaver said, adding that police recovered the knife. She is next due in court on May 7.
