Prosecutors Say Illegal Alien Played Victim After He Fatally Stabbed Girlfriend, Her Roommate Near Seattle
Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2025175
A Guatemalan migrant has been charged in the stabbing deaths of two women in Burien, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
Police arrested Marvin Ortiz Montecinos, 29, and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder. His bail is set at $10 million, according to KTVU-TV.
Investigators say that Ortiz Montecinos stabbed his girlfriend, Victoria Aparicio Cruz, more than 20 times, and then turned his knife on Yaneth Gomez Hernandez, stabbing her more than 40 times when she tried to stop him from attacking Cruz.
The victims lived in the same apartment, police revealed.
When officers first arrived on the scene, they said the suspect tried to act as if someone else attack him and the two women and that he was also a victim. Ortiz Montecinos also tried to claim that one of the women was his fiancée.
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