CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two folks have been charged within the dying of a Fort Campbell soldier who was stabbed practically 70 instances final yr, police mentioned Saturday.
Sofia Rodas, 35, has been charged with first-degree homicide and tampering with proof within the dying of U.S. Military Non-public First Class Katia Dueñas Aguilar, 23, the Clarksville Police Division mentioned in a information launch. Aguilar’s physique was present in her dwelling within the Tennessee metropolis of Clarksville in Might.
Reynaldo Salinas Cruz, Aguilar’s husband, has been charged with tampering with proof in her dying. Each Salinas Cruz, 40, and Rodas had been held on unrelated federal prices, and so they have been extradited to Clarksville on Friday, police mentioned. Their legal professionals of their federal instances didn’t instantly return calls on Saturday.
The small print associated to the fees weren’t instantly out there.
Dueñas Aguilar, of Mesquite Texas, enlisted within the Military in 2018 and a yr later got here to Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee-Kentucky border. She was a member of the one hundred and first Fight Aviation Brigade, one hundred and first Airborne Division.
An post-mortem report from the Montgomery County Medical Examiner’s Workplace mentioned Dueñas Aguilar suffered 68 stab wounds to her neck and higher physique
The medical expert dominated the reason for dying a murder because of sharp-force accidents of the neck.
