Man discovered responsible in 2023 homicide of Rachel Morin
A jury on Monday discovered the person charged with murdering Maryland mom Rachel Morin responsible. Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted on a number of costs together with premeditated homicide and first-degree rape.
A jury on Monday discovered the person charged with murdering Maryland mom Rachel Morin responsible.
What we all know:
Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted on a number of costs, together with premeditated homicide and first-degree rape. Sentencing has not but been set.
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Martinez-Hernandez killed 37-year-old Rachel Morin in August 2023. Her physique was discovered a day after she left to go on a run. He was arrested virtually 10 months later.
Martinez-Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally from El Salvador in 2023. He does have recognized gang ties.
“This individual, who took Rachel’s life in such a horrific manner, can be faraway from society and by no means allowed to hurt one other human being once more,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler stated throughout a press convention following the decision.
The backstory:
Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mom of 5, was jogging on the Ma & Pa Path in Bel Air round 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2023 when she vanished. She was discovered useless the following afternoon in what authorities described as a “prison murder.”
Police have been in a position to join DNA from the scene to a house invasion and assault in Los Angeles from March. The suspect was recognized as Victor Martinez Hernandez, an unlawful El Salvador migrant. Martinez Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 2024 and was charged with first-degree homicide and first-degree rape.
“As soon as in our nation, and certain emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a 9-year-old lady and her mom throughout a house invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler stated on the time of the arrest. “And as everybody I consider is conscious, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel’s case to the one in Los Angeles.”
Police stated he arrived within the states solely a month after he allegedly murdered a younger lady in El Salvador.