Austin, TX
Family of Tiera Strand says she was attacked before she disappeared and her body was found
Tiera Strand (Photographs courtesy of household)
The physique of a 25-year-old lacking mom who disappeared after relations say she was seen being attacked in a cellphone video by a number of ladies exterior a bar in downtown Austin, Texas, was present in a roadside ditch 70 miles away.
A passerby discovered the physique of Tiera Strand on Friday morning in a ditch off a street in Bell County, north of Temple, about 70 miles north of the place she had been reported lacking 5 days earlier, in accordance with a information launch from the Bell County Sheriff’s Division. Officers mentioned an post-mortem would decide how she died.
Mariah Herron, her sister, instructed Legislation&Crime on Saturday she’s offended, unhappy and confused. She mentioned her sister leaves behind a 6-year-old daughter who doesn’t know her mom died.
“She is along with her grandfather,” Herron mentioned. “She calls her telephone on a regular basis asking for her. That’s the toughest half.”
Herron mentioned Strand hoped to graduate from a seamless schooling program to get her highschool diploma in Might, and he or she had been speaking to a recruiter about going into the U.S. Navy.
“She was excited concerning the subsequent step of her life,” she mentioned, describing a wave of feelings. “You’re speaking to her sooner or later. You marvel the place she is, the subsequent. Days later, you must come to the belief that she’s not coming dwelling alive.”
She mentioned the household is ready to get her physique again health worker’s workplace and are planning her funeral. The household additionally plans to rent a non-public detective to undergo the main points of her case, hoping to be taught extra concerning the moments they are saying she was brutally assaulted in a crowd in downtown Austin earlier than disappearing on April 16 round 2 a.m. and the time her physique was discovered.
The Bell County Sheriff’s Division mentioned it was conducting a joint investigation with the Austin Police Division’s murder unit however launched no additional particulars on Saturday.
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