A second suspect was charged with homicide this week within the slaying of Luz Hernandez, a New Jersey kindergarten trainer who was discovered strangled to dying in a shallow grave final month.
Leiner Miranda Lopez, 26, is now going through prices of first-degree homicide, hindering, failing to eliminate human stays, and tampering with bodily proof, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez introduced Friday. He was beforehand charged with desecrating human stays.
Lopez remains to be on the run after authorities recognized him as a suspect final month.
Hernandez, a mom of three and a trainer at BelovED Constitution College in Jersey Metropolis, was reported lacking on Feb. 6 and located useless the subsequent day. An post-mortem decided that she died from blunt-force trauma and compressions to the neck.
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Hernandez’s estranged husband, 36-year-old Cesar Santana, was arrested on Feb. 10 at a motel in Miami. He’s going through counts of first-degree homicide and different prices.
Luz Hernandez, 33, a mom of three and a trainer at BelovED Constitution College, was discovered useless on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (Fb/Luz Hernandez)
Lopez and Santana had been concerned in a site visitors cease on Feb. 5 on Central Avenue in Kearny, New Jersey, the day earlier than Hernandez went lacking. Murder detectives discovered Hernandez’s stays close to the situation of that site visitors cease two days later.
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Police are nonetheless trying to find Lopez. Anybody with details about his whereabouts can contact the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Workplace at 201-915-1345.
Fox Information Digital’s Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.