Reign Tapiato has been charged as a suspect in the death of Jakarah López Moore, a 16-year-old teenager whose body was found in a forest in New York with a gunshot wound to the head.
Deputies arrested Tapiato, 27, yesterday morning in Rochester, six months after López Moore’s death. According to the police, the young man He took the minor to a forest on August 27 and fatally shot her in the head.highlighted NBC News.
No one, regardless of age, should suffer the tragic fate of being murdered in cold blood.
Malik Evans – Mayor of Rochester, NY
That day Jakarah left her home on Weld Street and her family reported her missing to the police when she did not return. According to his grandmother His last words at home were “I’ll be right back.”
A month and a half later, on October 14, people fishing in the Erie Canal discovered the body in the woods behind Vanguard Parkway. Rochester Police (RPD) investigators determined that López Moore They had killed her the same night she disappeared and identified Tapiato as the suspect.
According to RPD, Tapiato He had a loaded gun at the time of his arrest. yesterday. In addition to murder, he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Tapiato was taken to the Monroe County Jail pending arraignment today in Rochester City Court.
The motive for the crime is unclear, but police said Tapiato and López Moore knew each other. and the homicide was not a random act of violence.
“I ask that we continue to pray for the family and that we continue to care for our young people as they go through all the trials and tribulations that they go through in their lives,” the alcalde Malik Evans at the police press conference. “But “No one, regardless of age, should suffer the tragic fate of being murdered in cold blood like Jakarah was.”
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
While the police searched for López Moore, 9-year-old girl missing from state park in upstate New York on September 29. She was found alive and this week Craig Nelson Ross Jr. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting her.before the trial against him began in Saratoga County.
In another similar case, The girl of Mexican origin Dulce María Alavez has been missing for more than four years, last seen in a park in New Jersey when I was 5 years old, in September 2019. A reward offered of $75,000 and the work of the FBI – one of the most advanced investigative forces in the world – have not been enough to find her or at least know what happened to her.
2024-02-24 14:27:16
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