On Monday morning, testimony continued in the jury trial of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran national charged with first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of Rachel Morin in Bel Air.

The prosecution played a 911 call made by Cecilia Occorso, who was among a small group in a search party to discover Morin’s body in a tunnel off the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air. Occorso’s friend, Evan Knapp, testified Friday about walking down the blood-covered dirt path leading to a tunnel where he saw what he initially thought was a dead deer. As he inched closer, he discovered an “unclothed person laying on her back” in a small, shallow waterway surrounded by thick brush.

Once Knapp informed Occorso about his discovery, she was on the phone to police.

On the 911 call played in Harford Circuit Court Monday morning, Occorso was hysterical, breathing heavy, weeping and frantic. She said she almost threw up and passed out. Jurors sat wide eyed and motionless as they listened to the call, and family and friends of Morin wiped tears from their eyes. A woman behind Patty Morin, Rachel Morin’s mother, put her hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

The officer who responded to the 911 call of a body being found also testified Monday. Jurors were shown a screenshot from his body-worn camera and a photo of the inside of the tunnel where Morin’s body was found. In the photos, two lights set up to illuminate the body and crime scene markers were evident.

Defense attorneys alluded to the fact that it would be difficult to see Morin’s head and face in the dark tunnel since her feet were facing the entrance and her body was found a few feet inside the tunnel.

This story will be updated.

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