A Chicago woman's affair partner allegedly sent her a text message reading "I'll do it myself" while the pair orchestrated the killing of the woman's long-term boyfriend.
Agnieszka Rydzewski, 33, allegedly hired her McDonald's coworker and lover Anthony Calderon, 20, to shoot and kill Arturo Cantu.
Cantu and Rydzewski lived together in the Chicago suburbs. Prosecutors allege that Rydzewski wanted to end the relationship and begin openly dating Calderon.
"We will be together once all is clear," she allegedly texted Calderon on May 9.
Prosecutors allege that the pair had discussed hiring someone to kill Cantu, before eventually changing their plan.
"I'm done waiting. I will do it myself," Calderon wrote on May 9. Just one day before Cantu's May 15 death, Calderon allegedly wrote "There will be no mercy."
Rydzewski and Calderon are both being held at the Cook County Jail. Rydzewski was charged with solicitation of murder and Calderon was charged with the murder itself. Cantu's parents, ex-wife and young children have all reportedly been pleading for justice.
"I don't think I'll ever be the same," Cantu's mother Diana Pacheco told WMAQ. "My son didn't deserve it. He was a very loving man, a hardworking jokester. He put a smile on our faces."
