LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person accused of killing 22-year-old Lesly Palacio in 2020, who was on the run in Mexico for 4 years and returned to Las Vegas final week, confronted a decide and his alleged sufferer’s household for the primary time within the homicide case Wednesday.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 30, is the one suspect in Lesly Palacio’s August 2020 homicide. He’s accused of killing Palacio, 22, on Aug. 29, 2020. Police discovered her stays two weeks later close to the Valley of Fireplace.
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Authorities in Mexico arrested Rangel-Ibarra final July, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. On Aug. 28, he returned to Las Vegas after a 12 months of extradition proceedings. As a part of the USA’ treaty with Mexico, prosecutors can not search the demise penalty ought to a jury convict Rangel-Ibarra.
Wednesday’s courtroom listening to, which a number of members of Palacio’s household attended, was temporary as Rangel-Ibarra indicated he deliberate to rent a non-public legal professional. Within the interim, Clark County District Court docket Decide Tierra Jones appointed the general public defender’s workplace to symbolize him. Jones postponed the listening to for one week. Subsequent Thursday, Rangel-Ibarra may enter a plea, and Jones may schedule a trial date.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 30, is the one suspect in Lesly Palacio’s August 2020 homicide. He’s accused of killing Palacio, 22, on Aug. 29, 2020. Police discovered her stays two weeks later close to the Valley of Fireplace. (Palacio household)
In 2021, a grand jury indicted Rangel-Ibarra on costs of homicide and destroying proof. At the moment, authorities suspect he was already in Mexico. Rangel-Ibarra formally heard these costs on Wednesday morning.
Rangel-Ibarra’s father, Jose Rangel, initially informed police he thought Palacio had died from an overdose, however then informed police he initially noticed the physique when his son dragged it down the steps of their dwelling on a mattress sheet, paperwork mentioned. Video proof offered to a grand jury confirmed Rangel-Ibarra and Rangel shifting Palacio’s physique on the morning of her suspected demise, in response to paperwork obtained first by the 8 Information Now Investigators that 12 months.
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Palacio’s official trigger and method of demise are listed as undetermined. Investigators haven’t elaborated on what proof contained in the Rangel dwelling led them to find out Palacio is the sufferer of a murder. An undetermined trigger and method of demise means there’s not sufficient proof on a deceased particular person’s physique to obviously decide how they died.
In 2018, a Metro police officer stopped Rangel-Ibarra after observing him driving “at a high rate of speed” and “driving into oncoming traffic unsafely,” paperwork mentioned. The officer observed Rangel-Ibarra reaching “near the side panel door” and suspected he was concealing a firearm.
Within the report, Metro police described Rangel-Ibarra as an “illegal alien.” Rangel-Ibarra is an undocumented immigrant delivered to the U.S. illegally as a child and is classed as a “Dreamer” with Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) standing, sources mentioned.
In 2021, Rangel pleaded responsible to serving to his son transfer Palacio’s physique from the household dwelling. A decide sentenced Rangel to 2 years in jail. The 8 Information Now Investigators reported Rangel was launched after serving lower than 9 months.
Rangel-Ibarra declined an interview request. His household didn’t attend Wednesday’s listening to.
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