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BEL AIR, Md. (NewsNation) — Opening statements were heard Friday successful the proceedings of a antheral accused of murdering a Maryland woman who was jogging connected a fashionable Bel Air way successful 2023.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez is facing beingness without the anticipation of parole successful the August 2023 decease of 37-year-old Rachel Morin.
Martinez-Hernandez was arrested successful June successful Tulsa, Oklahoma, astir a twelvemonth aft Morin’s death. He is charged with first-degree execution and first-degree rape, according to Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler.
The Salvadorian national, who was 22 astatine the clip of Morin’s death, is accused of entering the U.S. illegally aggregate times arsenic good arsenic crimes successful his location country, according to authorities.
Authorities accidental Martinez-Hernandez is accused of murdering a pistillate successful December 2022. In aboriginal 2023, helium crossed the U.S. confederate borderline 3 times but was expelled each clip by the Border Patrol.
Martinez-Hernandez succeeded connected his 4th effort and aboriginal surfaced successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was linked to the battle of a pistillate and a 9-year-old girl. He past traveled to Maryland, wherever helium allegedly killed Morin.
