Jealous boyfriend who murdered ex after breakup learns fate
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Left: Emmet Metzger (Clinton County Jail). Right: Alexis Maki (Kassly Mortuary).

An Illinois man who admitted to shooting his ex-girlfriend following a difficult breakup has received his sentence, with a local judge granting him life imprisonment. The prosecutor strongly criticized him during the sentencing, as reported by the state’s attorney’s office.

“So many people suffered… all because his feelings were wounded,” stated Clinton County State’s Attorney J.D. Brandmeyer during the sentencing of Emmet Metzger, 27, on Tuesday, according to an attorney’s office press release.

“He cannot make amends to her family, her friends, and all those who cherished or were ever delighted by Ms. Maki’s presence and life,” he continued while pointing out the courtroom full of people showing support for the victim, Alexis Maki, 24, and her family.

“Unfortunately, [he] cannot compensate them for what he did,” the prosecutor added. “For all the pain, sadness, and heartache that he has caused many people because his feelings were hurt.”

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Metzger pleaded guilty in April to a charge of first-degree murder for the November 2023 slaying of Maki at the apartment they shared in New Baden, according to local CBS affiliate KMOV and the Belleville News-Democrat.

Recordings of the 911 call that Metzger placed after shooting Maki feature a phone confession from him that was made after he realized what he had done.

“I f—ed up,” Metzger told a dispatcher, according to KMOV and the News-Democrat. “I did something so bad. I shot my girlfriend. I need to be arrested, please.”

Metzger reportedly admitted to using a 9 mm Taurus G2C pistol to shoot Maki multiple times in their living room. The former couple had broken up a month before the shooting but still had a shared lease at an apartment on Hanover Street in New Baden, according to Maki’s mother, who spoke to KMOV in February 2024 about their relationship and prior incidents that allegedly happened between them.

“He was very jealous of her not spending all of her time with him,” said Maki’s mom, Lisa Brock. “He was just making her life miserable.”

On the day of the shooting, Brock said Metzger asked her to come over to the apartment they shared and to bring a dog that the two of them had adopted while dating so he could see it one last time. “I said, ‘I don’t feel good about this,’ and she said, ‘Neither do I,’” Brock told KMOV. “So, I said, ‘Don’t go.’”

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