Suspect in 2025 homicide of Sacramento woman dies in Mexico, police say

A man who was identified as a suspect in the homicide of a woman found last year in a Sacramento home has since died by suicide, police officials announced Friday.

Maria Candelaria Mota-Pinedo, 50, of Sacramento, was the victim in last year’s homicide, according to Sacramento County Coroner’s Office records.

Officers found Mota-Pinedo wounded and unresponsive shortly after 3:45 p.m. July 6, 2025, at the home in the 7600 block of Center Parkway just south of Tangerine Avenue in Sacramento’s Parkway neighborhood…

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