Roommate charged with murder of strangled 64-year-old woman found dead in Dumpster
02/06/2020 11:49 am PST
By Cindy Von Quednow, KTLA
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A man has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling his 64-year-old roommate to death and putting her body in a Dumpster in El Monte, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
David Lemus-Orellana, 22, faces one count of murder in connection with the death of Florinda Hernandez Vasquez on Tuesday. Her body was discovered buried under trash in a garbage bin along the 3300 block of Maxson Road that morning.
The person who alerted authorities said they saw a man dragging a woman's body from a trailer in a mobile home park nearby out to the street.
A neighbor shared home security video that they believe shows Velasquez Fernandez's killer pushing a large blue tub out to a Dumpster Tuesday morning.
Velazquez Fernandez was renting a room in a four-bedroom home in the park that she shared with two brothers and an older man, relatives say.
