The investigators believe that there was no particular motive for the abduction and subsequent murder of a 19-year-old woman who was taken from a park in Southern California.
On Tuesday, the Whittier, California, police department said that 19-year-old Andrea Vazquez had been shot and abducted the previous day, and that 20-year-old Gabriel Esparza had been arrested in connection with the incident.
It was shortly after midnight on Sunday when Vazquez and another person were sitting in their car in the parking lot of Penn Park in Whittier. According to the police, shots were fired at them as they were parked there.
According to KABC, an ABC station in Los Angeles, the individual who was with Vazquez at the time and who is believed to be her boyfriend ran away, and when he returned to his car, Vazquez was no longer there.
According to the reports of the police, the body of the 19-year-old was found on Monday night in a field of vegetation located close to Moreno Valley.
Her father, Enrique Vazquez, was quoted as saying to the media, “I lost my daughter… my angel.” A day that is exceedingly awful has arrived.
According to an interview that President Cynthia Olivo of Fullerton College gave to ABC News, Vazquez was a fashion major who was scheduled to start her second year at the institution on Tuesday.
Olivo released a statement in which he said, “Fullerton College is devastated to learn of the news about Andrea Vazquez.” Our thoughts and prayers are with her parents as well as the rest of her family and friends at this difficult time.
