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A 17-year-old highschool scholar from Texas was discovered bare and strangled to demise in a ditch – simply an hour after she was reported lacking.
Kaitlin Hernandez’s household stated she had gone for a stroll with a male pal from her neighborhood in Northeast aspect of city however didn’t return dwelling.
He reportedly informed them he didn’t know the place she was and her frantic family members reported her lacking on Tuesday evening at round 11.30pm.
An unidentified man discovered her mobile phone in a ditch and gave it to the police.
Officers from the San Antonio Police Division then discovered the lacking lady’s jacket and later her nude physique beneath a bridge in a drainage ditch on Oak Dell Drive round half a mile from her dwelling at about 12.30am on Wednesday morning.
Kaitlan Hernandez, 17, was discovered bare and strangled to demise in a ditch simply an hour after she was reported lacking by her household
Officers from the San Antonio Police Division discovered the lacking lady’s jacket and later her nude physique beneath a bridge in a drainage ditch on Oak Dell Drive. A cross (pictured) was positioned on the web site the place the homicide came about
Katilin’s devastated aunt, Crystal Rodriguez wept as she stated: ‘She needed to develop into a veterinarian. Y’all took her from us too quickly. Seventeen years outdated’
Police stated her physique confirmed seen indicators of trauma. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Workplace later confirmed that the younger lady had been strangled, KHOU11 Information reported.
Police stated the case, which began as a lacking particular person, is now being handled as a murder.
San Antonio Police Division launched footage of an unknown man asking the general public for assist figuring out ‘this particular person of curiosity’.
A SAPD spokesperson Ximena Alvarez informed DailyMail.com on Friday morning that an individual of curiosity, who has not been named, has now been recognized and is cooperating with the investigation.
No arrests have been made at the moment and the investigation is ongoing, the spokesperson added.
Hernadez was a senior at Roosevelt Excessive College, and set to graduate in Could.
Her devastated household stated she had desires of changing into a veterinarian.
Katilin’s distraught mom Angie Hernandez stated: ‘We have to discover out who did this as a result of she did not deserve this. To be left there like an animal may be very ugly and merciless and I do not know what this particular person was considering. Why they focused her. I do not perceive.’
In a heart-wrenching interview with KSAT Information on Thursday, Kaitlin’s aunt Crystal Rodriguez stated: ‘She needed to develop into a veterinarian. Y’all took her from us too quickly. Seventeen years outdated.’
‘And now her little sisters, they now not have time along with her,’ she stated via tears.
Rodriguez described her niece as ‘ humorous, all the time making different folks giggle.’ Hernandez was additionally remembered as a faithful huge sister to her youthful siblings
Kaitlin pictured at a bowling alley along with her family members
Officers are pictured looking for the younger lady after her household reported her lacking
The girl’s physique was found within the drainage ditch beneath a bridge early Wednesday morning
Rodriguez pleaded: ‘I’m begging you please … please any individual communicate up … any individual say one thing.’
She informed the information outlet the household is in a state of shock: ‘We’re barely holding up. We’re taking life proper now one minute at a time.’
The aunt has additionally created a GoFundMe to assist elevate cash for her niece’s funeral the place she defined the grieving household had misplaced her sister solely 4 months earlier.
‘Now they’re collectively in heaven,’ she stated.
As of Friday morning greater than $6,000 has been raised in the direction of their purpose of $10,000.
Rodriguez described her niece as ‘humorous, all the time making different folks giggle.’
Hernandez was additionally remembered as a faithful huge sister to her youthful siblings.
‘She cherished her household a lot and we cherished her. She cherished her canines, she all the time slept with them,’ she stated. We miss her dearly.’
She additionally shared that love for animals and had 4 canines of her personal and her aunt recalled how she all the time fed the stray animals within the neighborhood, KSAT Information reported.
Kaitlin pictured along with her household over the Christmas holidays
A vigil might be held at 6pm on Friday at 118 Ashland Drive. The household stated there might be a pastor main the service, and family and friends of the younger lady may have a chance to talk.
On the memorial, they’ll go to a bridge the place Hernandez was discovered and play music in her reminiscence.
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