A Virginia mother was stabbed to death on a jogging trail by a teenage migrant coworker who was caught entering the US illegally two years ago, police said.
Carmen Lizet Puch, 42, was found dead in a parking lot near a trail in Great Falls Park, an 800-acre park in McLean, Virginia, early Monday morning.
Officers found her lying on the gravel next to her car with stab wounds on her upper body, Fairfax County police said. She was also doused in gasoline and set on fire.
Puch was pronounced dead at the scene. She leaves behind a three-year-old daughter.
Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, has since been arrested in connection with her slaying and was charged with second-degree murder, the force revealed Wednesday.
Cedillos-Campos, originally from El Salvador, illegally crossed into the US at the southern border near El Paso, Texas, in 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Customs and Border Protection agents arrested the teen, but the Biden Administration ‘recklessly’ released him back into the country, DHS said.
DHS officials have urged Virginia’s Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger to ‘put her community first’ and turn Cedillos-Campos over to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).