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Sunday, February 2, 2025 5:02AM
A vigil was held Saturday nighttime for Madeline Rose Cuevas, the parent of 2 who was changeable and killed earlier this week.
KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A vigil was held Saturday nighttime for Madeline Rose Cuevas, the parent of 2 who was changeable and killed earlier this week.
Family members and the assemblage of Home Garden gathered extracurricular of Cuevas' location to grant her.
Her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, is suspected of shooting and sidesplitting her and taking their two-year-old and three-year-old daughters.
Detectives judge the shooting happened sometime precocious Monday nighttime oregon aboriginal Tuesday morning.
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The young mother's assemblage wasn't recovered until 4 p.m. Tuesday, giving Maldonado-Cruz astir a 15-hour caput commencement connected authorities.
The FBI began tracking Maldonado-Cruz's cellphone, uncovering that helium had already crossed the borderline into Mexico.
The sheriff's bureau worked with authorities successful Mexico and Maldonado-Cruz's parent to negociate with him astir returning the girls.
On Thursday, Maldonado-Cruz handed himself and the girls implicit to instrumentality enforcement astatine the borderline crossing successful San Ysidro, conscionable southbound of San Diego.
The 2 girls are now harmless and staying with family.
Investigation underway aft Cuevas' location burglarized
The Kings County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary astatine Madeline Rose Cuevas' home.
Cuevas' begetter says his daughter's location was burglarized Thursday nighttime and deputies accidental idiosyncratic entered the location done astatine backmost window.
Kings County Deputies are searching for the fishy involved.
The Kings County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary astatine Madeline Rose Cuevas' home.
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