US media reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) submitted a detention request against a Guatemalan migrant in Oklahoma for allegedly strangling his wife.
According to media such as Fox News, authorities identified the migrant as Willie Ricardo Mérida Escobar, 40, the main suspect in the death of his wife. Karla Gramajo Cabrera, whose body was found near a highway.
The authorities indicate that Escobar would have committed the act on April 10; Furthermore, he entered illegally to the United States in September 2016.
The DHS indicated that in 2023 A final expulsion order was issued against Escobar.
“An illegal alien with a criminal record from Guatemala strangled his wife and left her body under a highway in Oklahoma,” Acting Deputy Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News.
“This monster should never have been in our country“said Bis.
Other media such as NewsOn6 indicated that the victim’s sister had reported his disappearanceso investigations began to determine his whereabouts.
According to local police, on April 8, Escobar strangled his wife, while his 17-year-old son was sleeping in the house where the incident occurred.
After his arrest, Escobar not only confessed to having murdered his wife, Instead, he indicated that he “could not specify” where he had left the body.
Finally, Cabrera’s body He was found under a mattress near a highway.
The first hypotheses, according to the DHS, indicate that the couple They had an argument in which Cabrera insulted Escobar, which would have motivated the crime.
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