Naomi Irion, 18, found deceased in Nevada after being kidnapped from Walmart parking lot: police

Naomi Irion, an 18-year-old girl who police say was kidnapped from a Walmart parking zone in Nevada earlier this month, was discovered deceased this week in Churchill County, Nevada. 

Investigators from the Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained a tip about Irion’s disappearance on Tuesday that led them to a possible grave website. 

“The physique of an grownup Caucasian feminine was recovered from that grave website, the physique was transported to the Washoe County Medical Examiners Workplace for an post-mortem and to substantiate identification,” the Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace stated Wednesday night. 

“On March 30, 2022, the stays have been confirmed as these of Naomi Irion, the household has been notified.”

Troy Driver, 41, was arrested final week and charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection to Irion’s disappearance. Lyon County Decide Lori Matheus set his bail at $750,000 throughout a listening to on Wednesday. 

Irion grew up in a number of nations along with her household as her dad works for the U.S. State Division within the international service. 

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She moved from South Africa to Nevada final August and was residing along with her brother, Casey Valley, in Nevada. 

On the morning of March 12, she parked her automobile in a Walmart parking zone and was planning to catch an worker bus to her job at a Panasonic manufacturing facility, however the FBI stated she was “kidnapped.”

Surveillance footage launched by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace reveals a suspect strolling from a close-by homeless camp to the parking zone and entering into the driving force’s seat of Irion’s automobile, then driving away in an “unknown route with Naomi within the passenger seat.”

It’s unclear if the individual on the surveillance footage is Driver. 

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Police situated Irion’s automobile in Fernley, Nevada, on March 15, three days after she was final seen within the parking zone. 

Police launched this surveillance footage of a suspect in Irion’s kidnapping. 
(Lyon County Sheriff)

Driver sentenced to fifteen years in jail in 1997 for his position in protecting up a homicide and a string of robberies, in accordance with native data obtained by Information 4 and FOX 11 Reno.

“The rationale I do not suppose he is speaking, and it is form of an assumption on my half… this suspect is accustomed to the legal justice system, intimately,” Casey Valley, Irion’s brother beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital. 

Anybody with details about Irion’s disappearance can name your native FBI discipline workplace or the Lyon Sheriff’s workplace at 775-463-6620. 

Fox Information’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.