A 54-year-old suburban Seattle girl who had been lacking for 2 weeks was discovered lifeless in Mexico, and a person described as a suspect was arrested by Mexican police on unrelated expenses, police mentioned.
Police in Renton, Washington, mentioned this week that associates instructed officers they final heard from Reyna Hernandez on Feb. 26. Buddies instructed police she mentioned she was working errands earlier than returning to her house. Two days later Hernandez was reported lacking after she did not open her hair salon or reply her telephone.
Renton Police Division
Police mentioned on Friday they noticed a information article about an unidentified physique present in a cemetery alongside the Tijuana Freeway in Mexicali, a port of entry between the U.S. and Mexico close to the border with California.
Renton investigators contacted Mexicali authorities and supplied sufficient data to determine the physique over the weekend as that of Hernandez, police mentioned. Police did not say what led them to consider the physique belonged to Hernandez.
Mexican legislation enforcement officers arrested a 61-year-old Renton man on unrelated expenses and recovered Hernandez’s car, in accordance with Renton police. The title of the person arrested wasn’t launched and Renton police did not say what relationship he could have had with Hernandez, however described her loss of life as a home violence crime.
Police mentioned there’s proof that Hernandez was taken towards her will.
“That is the worst potential final result, and our hearts exit to Reyna’s household and associates,” Renton police Cmdr. Chandler Swain mentioned in a information launch.
He mentioned investigators are working with Mexicali police and U.S. federal companions to find out when and the place Hernandez was killed. He added that U.S. authorities would search the arrested man’s extradition in the event that they decide Hernandez’ loss of life occurred on American soil.
CBS affiliate KIRO-TV reported a makeshift memorial had been arrange outdoors Hernandez’s hair salon.
“To have this as the result is simply devastating,” Meeghan Black of the Renton Police Division instructed KIRO-TV. “It is now gone throughout nation traces, not simply state traces however nation traces and we had been working very properly with Mexican officers and we’re getting the federal officers concerned to try to determine who takes jurisdiction once we determine that timeline.”
