Schaumburg murder: No bail for man charged with stabbing ex-girlfriend

A 26-year-old Schaumburg man was denied bail Saturday on allegations he fatally stabbed his former girlfriend. 

Jesus Gomez-Marcano was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 24-year-old Yvonne Lattouf-Delgado, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Lattouf-Delgado was found stabbed in the neck Wednesday at her cousin’s apartment in the northwest suburb, where she had been staying, prosecutors said in court. 

Gomez-Marcano had gone that day to the apartment where Lattouf-Delgado was staying and the two got into an argument about her seeing other people, prosecutors said. 

Gomez-Marcano argued with his ex-girlfriend because she was seeing other people and then stabbed her multiple times, prosecutors said, He later allegedly threw the knife and her cellphone in nearby dumpsters. 

The pair had been in a relationship for three years and moved to the northwest suburb together last year from Venezuela, according to prosecutors, who outlined a history of alleged domestic violence. 

An assistant state’s attorney said Gomez-Marcano admitted to the police that he stabbed Lattouf-Delgado. 

Judge William Fahey ordered Gomez-Marcano held without bail.

The public defender representing Gomez-Marcano requested a preliminary hearing for him to alert the Venezuelan consulate about his case, which Fahey granted.  

Gomez-Marcano will appear in court again in Rolling Meadows on March 8.