Teen’s Physique Discovered Wrapped In Comforter on Aspect of Street; Now, His Cousins Have Been Arrested

The physique of Edgar Jose Martinez, 18, (above left) was discovered on the aspect of Pope Park Freeway, wrapped in a comforter final Saturday. Per police, the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner decided the teenager had been shot a number of occasions.

Martinez was simply days shy of his nineteenth birthday on November 14, having graduated from highschool this previous spring.

“It’s believed that the physique had been positioned on Pope Park Freeway roughly 24 hours previous to the invention,” stated police in a press launch. “In the course of the course of the investigation, it was decided that the incident occurred roughly in the future earlier, in an house inside 158 Magnolia Avenue.”

After looking the house, police situated two suspects on Saturday morning and took them into custody. Per Martinez’s household, the teenager lived with two of his cousins — who’ve been charged in his dying.

Sender Soto-Veliz, 21, (above proper) has been charged with hindering prosecution and tampering with proof and is being held on $500,000 bond, whereas an unnamed 17-year-old man has been charged with homicide and tampering with proof.

Per police lieutenant Aaron Boisver, through PEOPLE, Soto-Veliz is suspected of serving to the teenager eliminate the physique. Boisver additionally stated {the teenager}’s case is anticipated to go to grownup court docket.

Talking with NBC Connecticut, Martinez’s aunt stated, “What we do need is for earthly justice to be made as a result of God’s justice is on the opposite aspect” — including the household believes he was killed over cash.

“We’re engaged on a few theories,” Boisvert informed FOX 61. “Essentially the most distinguished is there was some kind of disagreement within the house that went unhealthy which changed into a bodily altercation which changed into a murder.”

His sister, Nimsa, additionally informed the outlet, “He was the one who all the time took care of me, regardless of him not being OK. I will bear in mind him as essentially the most stunning individual I may’ve ever recognized.”