An illegal immigrant has admitted strangling a woman on her 21st birthday before dragging her body past a police car and burying her in woods.
Onondaga County Assistant District Attorney Rob Moran told WSYR that 21-year-old Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis died Tuesday in A Syracuse court pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the June 18 slaying of Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza.
In exchange for the guilty plea, Judge Ted Limpert agreed to sentence the killer to no more than 25 years in prison, the outlet reported.
A source from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently told reporters new york post Both Chacaguasai-Ilbis and Toaquiza are in the United States illegally. According to the outlet, the two are both from Ecuador and have known each other since elementary school.
Illegal immigrant accused of suffocating and killing young woman on birthday: report
Jon Moises Chacaguasai Ilbis and Joceline Jonah Toaquiza. (Ecuador Metro)
Prosecutor Alphonse Williams told the Syracuse Post that the suspect was staying in an Airbnb at the time of the murder. He reportedly visited Toaquiza on her 21st birthday.
Creepy surveillance footage shows two people walking into an Airbnb around 4:30 pm on June 18. . He reportedly strangled the woman with a rope.
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Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza had just turned 21 when she was killed. (go support me)
Williams claimed that Chacaguasay-Irbis buried Toaquiza’s body in a shallow grave in Lincoln Park and then took a Greyhound bus to New York City. He later surrendered to authorities.
Toakiza’s body was discovered on June 22, WSYR reported.
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Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis and Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza were caught on surveillance cameras before the June 18 homicide. (WSYR-TV)
According to the Washington Post, Chacaguasai-Irbis crossed the U.S. border into El Paso, Texas, in January 2023 and was captured, then released because there was no room for him.
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A few months later, on June 19, 2023, Toakiza entered the country in Lukeville, Arizona, the outlet reported. She told border agents she was fleeing an abusive partner; it was unclear whether that was her killer.
Chacaguasay’s sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 14, according to online court records.
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report.
