Southwest
Trump meets with Rachel Morin family at border, Maryland mom of 5 murdered by illegal immigrant suspect
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Former President Trump on Friday met with the family of Rachel Morin, the Maryland mother of five who was brutally attacked and murdered, allegedly by an illegal immigrant suspect from El Salvador in August 2023.
Trump’s visit to the southern border and meeting with the Morin family came during his campaign stop in Cochise County, Arizona.
“The reason I came here today and I accepted the invitation is because I really want our words to be heard, and I really want you to take to heart what we’re saying,” Patty Morin said. “We’re not here for a political stand, although we are. We’re here because we’re losing our moms, our daughters, our children, to criminals, and that shouldn’t happen. We should be taking care of our country, our people, and the only way I think that’s going to happen is if President Trump is reelected as president.”
Patty went on to share the story of how she came to learn that her daughter had been murdered.
“We should be taking care of our country, our people, and the only way I think that’s going to happen is if President Trump is reelected as president.”
RACHEL MORIN MURDER: MARYLAND LAWMAKER CONFRONTS MAYORKAS OVER ‘FAILURE’ INVOLVING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SUSPECT
“Rachel was 37 years old. She had five children. She worked. She owned a small business. She worked very hard to support her family, and the trail that Rachel ran daily was a trail that we as a family would walk over the last 25 that we’ve lived in Maryland,” she began, referring to the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel-Air, Maryland, that Rachel ran on regularly, as she was on the evening she was killed.
“It’s a very safe, small trail. Very public, very open. Moms with baby carriages go down the trial. It’s very safe,” Patty said.
WATCH: BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF MIGRANT ACCUSED IN RAPE, MURDER OF MARYLAND MOM RACHEL MORIN
U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate and former President Donald Trump comforts Patty Morin, mother of the Rachel Morin who was murdered by an undocumented migrant, at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Trump will hold a rally in Glendale, Arizona tomorrow. (Rebecca Noble)
She was in Kentucky at the time of Rachel’s death, visiting family because her grandchild had just passed away, when she got a call from a Maryland detective saying they found Rachel’s body.
“They found my daughter’s body, and when they found it…it just recently came out that she was brutally beaten, raped and then stuffed into a drain pipe,” Patty recalled.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INDICTED FOR RACHEL MORIN’S MURDER IN ‘CRUCIAL STEP’: FAMILY LAWYER
![Rachel Morin in jean shorts and a California tank top.](https://newspub.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1724581890_489_Trump-meets-with-Rachel-Morin-family-at-border-Maryland-mom.jpg)
Rachel Morin was dragged off a hiking trail Aug. 5, 2023, and brutally murdered. (Family handout)
“We are 1,008 miles from the border, and because of this open border, we’ve had not just my daughter, but we’ve had two in the same county … where illegal immigrants have come in and have caused rape and murder of our citizens,” she said.
In June of this year, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler announced the arrest of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, in Morin’s murder.
RACHEL MORIN MURDER: MARYLAND LAWMAKER CONFRONT MAYORKAS OVER ‘FAILURE’ INVOLVING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SUSPECT
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Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, arrives in Maryland. He is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape in Rachel Morin’s death on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air, Maryland. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun/Getty Images)
Martinez-Hernandez was apprehended in Tusla, Oklahoma, and faces charges of first-degree murder, rape and kidnapping, in connection with Morin’s death.
Authorities have labeled him a potential serial killer after his alleged involvement in a slew of crimes against women in Central America and the United States, and prosecutors are seeking a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the suspect.
RACHEL MORIN MURDER: MARYLAND POLICE TIE CRIME SCENE DNA TO LOS ANGELES ASSAULT, HOME INVASION
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The Harford County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland posted signs at Ma & Pa Trail heads on June 17, 2024 announcing the arrest in the August 2023 murder of Rachel Morin. (Harford County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook)
Investigators also tied DNA found at the scene of Morin’s murder to DNA found inside a Los Angeles residence after a home invasion in March of last year.
“Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles,” Gahler said at the time of the suspect’s arrest. “And as everyone I believe is aware, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel’s case to the one in Los Angeles.”
MARYLAND SHERIFF’S ‘GUT’ SAYS RACHEL MORIN WAS ‘STALKED’ BY SUSPECT BEFORE HER MURDER
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A policeman holds fliers requesting information on the murder of Rachel Morin at the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on Tuesday, August 8, 2023. The trail is where 37-year-old Rachel Morin was found dead on Sunday. (Mega for Fox News Digital)
Despite the DNA match linking the two cases, however, authorities were unable to find an identity match for the DNA samples collected from either crime scene because it was not previously logged in the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) system, where authorities log DNA samples of offenders arrested in the United States.
“We are 1800 miles from the southern border,” Gahler said in June. “And American citizens are not safe because of their failed immigration policies.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Police warn public of fake QR codes found on Redondo Beach parking meters
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Authorities are warning the public after fake QR codes were discovered on parking meters across Redondo Beach.
Stickers with the fraudulent QR code were discovered on approximately 150 parking meters along the Esplanade and Riviera Village areas, according to Redondo Beach police.
City officials only work with two companies to collect parking fees — ParkMobile and PayByPhone. ParkMobile uses a QR code that directs users to the ParkMobile App.
PayByPhone can accept payments on their app or on their official website.
The fake QR codes were much larger and placed directly underneath or next to the official city-approved stickers.
When scanning the fake stickers, users are taken to a website labeled “poybyphone.online” and prompted to input their their location and payment information. The official website is “paybyphone.com.”
![The fraudulent QR codes were placed under or adjacent to the legitimate stickers. (Redondo Beach Police Department)](https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/08/anaheim-police-dept.-5-6.png?w=900)
City officials said all fraudulent QR code stickers have since been removed.
“If anyone feels that they have been defrauded, please contact the Redondo Beach Police Department at your earliest convenience to file a report,” authorities said.
The public can call the Redondo Beach Police Department at 310-379-2477.
Southwest
RFK Jr joins Trump on stage in battleground Arizona rally following endorsement
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RFK Jr. joins Trump at Arizona campaign rally
Hours after suspending his campaign for president, third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joins former President Trump during a rally in Glendale on Friday. Earlier in the day, Kennedy endorsed Trump, who is the Republican presidential nominee.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined former President Trump on stage at his Friday rally in Glendale, Arizona, hours after the third-party candidate announced he was suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing the Republican nominee.
“We are both in this to do what’s right for the country,” Trump told the large crowd inside the Desert Diamond Arena with RFK Jr. standing beside him, adding that if he wins the presidency, he would establish an independent presidential commission on assassination attempts that would also be tasked with releasing all the remaining documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, RFK Jr.’s uncle, who was killed in 1963.
“He is a phenomenal person, a phenomenal man who loves the people of this country,” Trump added of RFK Jr.
The former long-shot candidate said he had more than one meeting with Trump starting last month, in which they “talked not about the things that separate us because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and the issues that bind us together. And one of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, looks on as Republican presidential nominee former Trump speaks at a campaign rally Friday, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
He added of Trump: “Don’t you want a president who’s going to protect America’s freedoms and who is going to protect us against totalitarianism? … Don’t you want a safe environment for your children? Don’t you want to know that the food that you’re feeding them is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease? And don’t you want a president that’s going to make America healthy again?”
Trump added that RFK Jr. “did well in the polls” but the two-party system made it “very tough” for his candidacy.
He also pitched to RFK Jr.’s supporters.
“And all who supported Bobby’s campaign, I very simply ask you to join us in building this coalition,” Trump said. “It’s a beautiful coalition in defense of liberty and safety, prosperity and peace. It’s going to be an incredible coalition, and the relationship has been so good for so long. I have no doubt it’s going to work and work well, but we have to win. We have to take our country away from these people that are going to destroy our country.”
Trump and RFK Jr. rallied a capacity crowd in the same arena where Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz held a rally earlier this month.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee former President Trump at a campaign rally in Glendale, Ariz., Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
RFK Jr. endorsed Trump earlier Friday, saying that he planned to stay off the ballot in red and blue states, so people could vote for him there, but remove his name from battleground states.
“Three causes drove me to enter this race in the first place. And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now to throw my support at President Trump,” RFK said. “The causes were free speech, war in Ukraine and the war on our children.”
Kennedy said that the Democratic National Committee “waged continued legal war” on both Trump and himself while also accusing the DNC of running a “sham primary” that prevented a serious primary challenge to President Biden before he secured the Democratic nomination and dropped out in July, endorsing Harris.
TRUMP THANKS RFK JR FOR ENDORSEMENT AFTER THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE SUSPENDS HIS CAMPAIGN: ‘THAT’S BIG’
Harris’ campaign reached out to RFK Jr. supporters in a statement to Fox News on Friday.
“For any American out there who is tired of Donald Trump and looking for a new way forward, ours is a campaign for you. In order to deliver for working people and those who feel left behind, we need a leader who will fight for you, not just for themselves, and bring us together, not tear us apart. Vice President Harris wants to earn your support. Even if we do not agree on every issue, Kamala Harris knows there is more that unites us than divides us: respect for our rights, public safety, protecting our freedoms, and opportunity for all.”
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Los Angeles, Ca
Southern California brothers remain in ICU after gunman opens fire on busy street
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Two brothers remain hospitalized in the ICU after a shooter opened fire on a busy street in Riverside County.
The incident happened on Aug. 14 as Ivan Pineda and Luis Pineda were walking on the 1000 block of West Florida Avenue in Hemet.
Around 3:30 p.m., the brothers and the suspect appeared to have an angry exchange of words. The suspect, who was riding a bicycle, makes a U-turn and pulls up alongside the brothers.
The suspect reaches into his pants pocket, pulls out a gun and fires two shots at one of the brothers. The second brother runs over and tackles the gunman as another three shots are fired out.
The two men get into a fistfight in the middle of the street, blocking the roadway for oncoming vehicles. Eventually, the gunman wrestles free from the victim’s grip and runs away from the scene.
Police arrived shortly after and transported the victims to a local hospital. Both brothers are hospitalized in the ICU where Ivan remains in critical condition and Luis remains in stable condition.
The victims’ sister, Lucia Pineda, said her brothers were on their way to work when the violence unfolded.
Upon their release from the hospital, Lucia said both men will be required to stay at an assisted living facility for physical therapy until they fully recover.
“We’re a very close family so when something like this happens, it’s very hard on all of us,” Lucia said. “They’re just normal, regular people who were just trying to make some money.”
Lucia said she is heartbroken that her brothers were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A GoFundMe page to help the Pineda family with hospital bills and treatment costs can be found here.
The suspect remains at large as police work to track down his identity.
Anyone with information on the case can call the Hemet Police Department at 951-765-2400.
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