Left: Emmet Metzger (Clinton County Jail). Right: Alexis Maki (Kassly Mortuary).
An Illinois man has admitted to gunning down his ex-girlfriend after a bad breakup, with the victim’s mother saying he was “very jealous of her not spending all of her time with him” and “making her life miserable” before shooting her in the neck, chest, shoulder and hip.
Emmet Metzger, 27, pleaded guilty this week to a charge of first-degree murder for the November 2023 slaying of Alexis Maki, 24, 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.’”
Brock recalled how her daughter assured her that Metgzer had promised not to hurt her.
“I said, ‘You don’t know that,’” Brock remembered.
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Later that night — and just hours before the shooting — police reportedly responded to an incident between Metgzer and one of Maki’s coworkers at a bar in Lebanon. Metzger allegedly attacked one of the workers, Giovanni Venuti, who also spoke to KMOV in February 2024 about the alleged incident.
“[Metzger] got out of his truck, walked up to the passenger side window of Alexis’ car where I was at and punched me four or five times,” Venuti said, noting how he was left with a chipped tooth and battered face.
Maki’s online obituary describes her as a “proud pet parent of her beloved dog, Echo, and her cats, Scout and Honey.” It says she “touched many lives with her generosity and selfless nature” and was “very involved in helping others throughout her life,” per the obit.
“People gravitated towards her charm,” the description says.
Metzger is facing a sentence of 45 years to life in prison, according to reports. His sentencing is scheduled for June 9.
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