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On Friday, an illegal immigrant named Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested for the murder and rape of Rachel Morin amongst other crimes. The arrest was announced on Saturday.
The murder and rape of Morin occurred ten months prior in August of last year.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Duffey said that a DNA evidence had allowed them to identify the criminal.
Governor of Maryland Wes Moore said that “My heart is broken for the Morin family — as is our entire state,” and that “we have got to fix a broken immigration policy. And we know that we need Congress to act on this.” Randolph Rice, an attorney representing the family of the victim said that “Rachel would be alive today if politicians would stop this flow of illegal immigrants.” Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said that he wanted the suspected murderer to “die in [the] Maryland prison system” and that it was the second murder by an illegal immigrant in Harford County in the past 2 two years. He also said that “we are 1,800 miles away from the southern border, and the American citizens are not safe because of failed immigration policies.”
Morin was a 37 year old mother to five children and lived in the state of Maryland. Martinez-Hernandez is a 23 year old illegal immigrant from El Salvador where authorities say that he murdered a young girl in January 2023. He is also said to invaded a Los Angeles home in March last year, injuring a mother and her nine year old daughter.
