A suspect of murder accused of strangling a Georgia mother of five in a random attack last week is a Honduran illegal immigrant It was caught and released on the southern border by the Biden administration in March 2021, FOX News learned.
David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, has also been the subject of a deportation warrant since July 2023, said American immigration and customs enforcement (ICE).
Rivas-Sagastume is charged with Kapital murder In the death of Camilia Williams, a 52-year-old mother of five and grandmother. Her body was dumped in a wooded area, the authorities said.
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David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, is accused of killing a Georgia wife. (Cobb County Police Department)
The Williams family told local media that she said that a man had followed her in the days before she was murdered. Authorities did not exactly have the connection of the suspect with Williams.
An arrest warrant states that Rivas-Sagastume Williams of Marietta attacked and placed her in a chokehold, so that she loses consciousness somewhere between 11 p.m. and 1 hour on 12 March, on 12 March, Fox Atlanta reported. Once unconscious, Rivas-Sagastume would have told the police that he has placed both knees and his full body weight in her neck, which led to her death.
The Ministry of Interior Security told Fox News that Rivas-Sagastume entered the United States illegally on 17 March 2021 and was arrested by the American border patrol.
“He received a notification to appear in the country through the previous government and to get into the country,” said the statement. “A judge ordered him to be removed on July 11, 2023. On March 18, 2025, he was arrested by the police of Cobb County for capital murder and other crimes.”
“ICE has submitted an immigration detainer to the prison of Cobb County. President Trump And secretary will not allow criminal illegal alien beings – including accused murderers – to be loose in the streets of America. “
Rivas-Sagastume is not held on bond, according to the prison reports.
The murder of Williams has drawn parallels with the murder of Laeken Riley, who was also murdered in Georgia by an illegal immigrant who was caught and released by border authorities. He was later convicted of the murder of Riley.
Laken Riley poses for a photo on Facebook. Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was found dead on 22 February near a lake on campus. An illegal immigrant is accused of her murder. (Laeken Riley/Facebook)
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Riley’s body also left in the forest.
