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US Border Patrol agent charged in two-week 'serial killer' murder spree
Texas authorities charged a US Border Patrol supervisor with murder following what they called a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead, and ended when a fifth woman escaped at a gas station and found help.
Juan David Ortiz, 35, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, was charged with four counts of murder as well as aggravated assault and unlawful restraint, Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said in a tweet.
Ortiz was arrested after the fifth woman managed to flee. State troopers found Ortiz hiding in a truck in a hotel parking lot in Laredo, a border city about 235 kilometres southwest of San Antonio, at around 2:00am Saturday (local time).
"We do consider this to be a serial killer," Mr Alaniz said.
He said that after the suspect picked up the fifth woman she quickly realised that she was in danger.
"When she tried to escape from him at a gas station, that's when she ran into a [state] trooper," Mr Alaniz said.
He said that authorities believe Ortiz had killed all four women since September 3. The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Mr Alaniz said two of them were US citizens but the nationalities of the other two were not yet known. All of them were sex workers and one was a transgender woman, he said.
"The manner in which they were killed is similar in all the cases from the evidence," said Alaniz.
US Border Patrol agent charged in two-week 'serial killer' murder spree
Texas authorities charged a US Border Patrol supervisor with murder following what they called a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead, and ended when a fifth woman escaped at a gas station and found help.
Juan David Ortiz, 35, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, was charged with four counts of murder as well as aggravated assault and unlawful restraint, Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said in a tweet.
Ortiz was arrested after the fifth woman managed to flee. State troopers found Ortiz hiding in a truck in a hotel parking lot in Laredo, a border city about 235 kilometres southwest of San Antonio, at around 2:00am Saturday (local time).
"We do consider this to be a serial killer," Mr Alaniz said.
He said that after the suspect picked up the fifth woman she quickly realised that she was in danger.
"When she tried to escape from him at a gas station, that's when she ran into a [state] trooper," Mr Alaniz said.
He said that authorities believe Ortiz had killed all four women since September 3. The names of the victims were not immediately released.
Mr Alaniz said two of them were US citizens but the nationalities of the other two were not yet known. All of them were sex workers and one was a transgender woman, he said.
"The manner in which they were killed is similar in all the cases from the evidence," said Alaniz.