Just days ago, Tinayia Henderson lamented how someone murdered her friend Mijal Conejero-Romera, 22, as well as Mijal’s boyfriend, Diego Alexander Woollett, 22.
“She didn’t deserve this,” Mijal’s best friend, Tinayia Henderson, said in a Tuesday report from Washington, D.C., CBS affiliate WUSA about the unsolved Aug. 28 murders. “It hurts knowing every day that there’s no answer for her. There’s no answer for Diego.”
But according to deputies in Loudoun County, Virginia, those answers just emerged. On Wednesday, at approximately 6:01 p.m. officers with the Alexandria Police Department recognized local man Marlyn Medrano-Ortiz, 18, on the 4100 block of Mt. Vernon Avenue. They had seen him in a law enforcement bulletin looking for the suspect in the double homicide and arrested him. Not only is he charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, but deputies promise more charges.
Authorities identified Medrano-Ortiz as a member of the gang, MS-13.
“This continues to be an ongoing investigation, and additional charges related to the death of both victims will be forthcoming,” Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman wrote.