A 54-year-old suburban Seattle woman who had been lacking for 2 weeks was found dead in Mexico, and a person described as a suspect was arrested by Mexican police on unrelated prices, police mentioned.
Police in Renton, Washington, mentioned this week that buddies informed officers they final heard from Reyna Hernandez on Feb. 26. Friends informed police she mentioned she was operating 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 Department
Police mentioned on Friday they noticed a information article about an unidentified physique found in a cemetery alongside the Tijuana Highway in Mexicali, a port of entry between the U.S. and Mexico close to the border with California.
Renton investigators contacted Mexicali authorities and offered sufficient data to establish 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 regulation enforcement officers arrested a 61-year-old Renton man on unrelated prices and recovered Hernandez’s car, in accordance with Renton police. The identify of the person arrested wasn’t launched and Renton police did not say what relationship he might have had with Hernandez, however described her demise as a home violence crime.
Police mentioned there may be proof that Hernandez was taken towards her will.
“This is the worst doable final result, and our hearts exit to Reyna’s household and buddies,” 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’ demise occurred on American soil.
CBS affiliate KIRO-TV reported a makeshift memorial had been arrange exterior Hernandez’s hair salon.
“To have this as the result is simply devastating,” Meeghan Black of the Renton Police Department informed KIRO-TV. “It’s now gone throughout nation strains, not simply state strains however nation strains and we have 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.”
