An illegal migrant from El Salvador is responsible for the murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, police announced.
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.
“Five hours after meeting with [Morin’s] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel’s murderer: Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez,” Gahler said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
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.”
Gahler said that their first DNA match for Martinez-Hernandez was from a Los Angeles attack in March 2023.
“Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his aminity, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles,” Gahler said.
