Body camera footage shows the long search for Rachel Morin’s alleged killer end at an Oklahoma bar.
“It’s possible that he’s in there and he’s sitting at the bar,” a Tulsa Police officer can be heard saying as officers gathered outside Los Dos Amigos Sports Bar in Tulsa around 10:45 p.m. June 14.
The video, released to The Baltimore Sun by Tulsa Police following a public information request, shows officers walk into a largely empty bar, approach three men and lead 23-year-old Victor Martinez-Hernandez outside, where they handcuffed him.
Morin, a 37-year-old Bel Air mother of five, was found dead in a wooded area adjacent to the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air last August. Police found her body the next day in the woods near the trail. Morin had been beaten to death and sexually assaulted, detectives wrote in charging documents for Martinez-Hernandez.
In the video, Martinez-Hernandez, originally from El Salvador, at first tells officers his name is Juan Carlos and he doesn’t have a cellphone or ID. Using a photo, officers identify him by his teeth, and another man outside the bar hands an officer a cellphone that Martinez-Hernandez confirms is his and provides the passcode. In the video, Martinez-Hernandez was wearing a long-sleeve yellow shirt, a hat and sunglasses as police took his picture and asked him whether he is from El Salvador.
“They tracked him. He’s been in [Los Angeles], Miami, Maryland, New York,” an officer can be heard saying in the video after Martinez-Hernandez is led into the back of a police car.
About 45 minutes after he is first handcuffed, Martinez-Hernandez is driven to a jail, where a Spanish-speaking officer talks with him before he is led away.
Martinez-Hernandez was extradited to Maryland on June 20 and charged with first- and second-degree murder; first- and second-degree rape; third-degree sex offense; and kidnapping. He is being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center and has three court hearings scheduled for October.
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