An illegal migrant from El Salvador is responsible for the murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, police announced. In a press conference on Saturday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler said that Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested late Friday night and booked on Saturday morning.
The 23-year-old migrant illegally crossed into the United States in February 2023, police announced. 'We all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim,' Gahler said. 'It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier, in January of 2023.
The Los Angeles Police Department collected a hat left behind at the scene of the March 2023 home invasion that turned violent, leaving multiple people, including minor children, injured. The suspect allegedly broke into the home in the middle of the night and assaulted the family inside before he was chased out. Surveillance video footage captured the man leaving, shirtless, through the front door.
'm going to make this short because I'm very emotional,' Rachel's mother, Patricia Morin, said. 'I just want to take this time to thank all the law enforcement for all their hard work.' CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 'They just really cared for our family and for our daughter,' she said. 'They were going to diligently work and find the person who murdered her.