One person is dead by their own hand and another charged with murder after they attempted to flee from Edinburg police, who sought to speak to them Thursday as persons of interest in the death of a Mission woman.
City spokesperson Ashly Custer said Friday that Edinburg police planned to meet with the two in question to speak with them about the death of Maritza Idette Zamora.
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One of those individuals was identified Friday as 61-year-old Rogelio Ramirez Cortez, who has been arrested and charged in Zamora’s death.
Zamora, 28, was found unresponsive a little after 1 p.m. Wednesday by officers responding to a welfare concern in an Edinburg apartment in the 3700 block of Sarah Evans Street. Autopsy results later revealed blunt force trauma as Zamora’s cause of death.
Police caught up with Zamora and the other persons of interest around noon Thursday in the 1200 block of Harrison in Alton.
“In the process of trying to make contact they took off running,” Custer said, adding that Cortez was detained at the time and the other had barricaded himself in an apartment, where that person who has yet to be identified was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Cortez was charged with first degree murder at an arraignment Friday afternoon, where his bond was set at $1 million.
Editor’s note: This story was updated with new information from the arraignment.
