Arrest made in murder of 16-year-old escort
“Prosecutors charged a man today in connection with the stabbing and strangulation of a 16-year-old girl, who worked for an escort service.
The girl’s nude body was found early Saturday outside of a burning Dearborn Heights apartment.
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Prosecutors charged the man who allegedly called for the escort, Epigmenio Gomez, 23, of Dearborn Heights, with first-degree murder.
“This is such a heinous crime,” said Dearborn Heights Police Capt. Gary Tomkiewicz. “We are dealing with a sick individual.”
Tomkiewicz said the girl was slashed at the waist and had bite marks on her, along with duct tape around her neck. He believes the suspect tossed her body out of the second story apartment window.
Maria Miller, a spokesman for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, said the girl suffered deep stab wounds to her torso and blunt trauma, but the cause of death was strangulation.
Firefighters initially responded to the Dearborn West apartment complex on Cranford at 7:45 a.m. Saturday and found the girl’s body in front of the apartment.
Police said she had been dragged out of the apartment after a struggle.
Further investigation revealed she was killed while working for an escort service, Miller said.
State Police arrested Gomez for drunken driving in Ionia County on Sunday and noticed his name was in a statewide computer database as a murder suspect, Tomkeiwicz said.
“The state police officers did a great job,” Tomkeiwicz said.”
This crazed looking crack-headish individual kills a 16 year old call girl, sets his apartment on fire and then drags her body into the front lawn. Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t call-girls usually more fun when they’re alive?
