Man stands trial over 8 years after girl’s murder in Miami’s Little Havana

MIAMI – Amaury Alvarenga advised cops that she walked into her house in Miami’s Little Havana to seek out her 11-year-old daughter, Martha Guzman, curled up on the ground useless — with a knife protruding of her neck and cuts on her wrists.

Prosecutors stated DNA and surveillance video pointed to Alvarenga’s ex-boyfriend Miguel Ruiz Lobo, who was standing trial for the 2014 homicide on Monday in Miami-Dade County courtroom. Alvarenga’s daughter Stefanie Rivera additionally noticed her little sister’s physique.

“Her eyes had been shut, she had been crying,” Rivera stated throughout her testimony Monday in courtroom.

Detectives stated Ruiz Lobo clumsily tried to stage a suicide on June 25, 2014, at 834 NW 4 St.

The medical expert reported the stabber had slashed Martha’s wrists so deep that the knife reduce via her tendons. Martha couldn’t have stabbed herself within the neck, police stated.

“There’s no approach {that a} suicide sufferer would go that deep to have the ability to reduce nearly her complete wrist off her arm,” Manuel Orosa, the then-Miami Police chief, stated after the homicide.

Detectives imagine Martha fought again. Investigators recognized DNA below her fingernails, and it belonged to Ruiz Lobo. In addition they discovered surveillance video that confirmed him arriving on the crime scene shortly earlier than 10:30 a.m. and leaving at about 11 a.m., based on police.

Circuit Decide Marisa Tinkler Mendez was presiding over the trial for first-degree homicide and occupied housebreaking.

Ruiz Lobo, who pleaded not responsible, has been within the custody of Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation since July 21, 2014, after a grand jury indicted him when he was 42 years outdated.

Information present Ruiz Lobo marked his 51st birthday in March on the Metrowest Detention Middle.

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