A 29-year-old man has been accused of what authorities called the “horrific” murders of his girlfriend and their roommate.
Marvin Ortiz-Montecinos was charged on Friday, Sept. 12, with two counts of first-degree murder with deadly weapon enhancements for the deaths of Victoria Aparicio Cruz and Yaneth Gomez-Hernandez.
According to charging documents obtained by PEOPLE, Ortiz-Montecinos allegedly used a fillet knife to stab Cruz, “slicing through her neck, cutting her hands in multiple places as she tried to defend herself, and stabbing her multiple times in the back even after she was unresponsive and dead.”…