Naomi Irion cause of death being investigated as ‘homicide,’ exact cause of death not released

Naomi Irion‘s dying is being investigated as a “murder,” Nevada authorities mentioned Wednesday, although her explanation for dying is just not being instantly launched. 

“The Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace together with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating the dying of Naomi Irion as a murder,” the Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned in a Thursday afternoon Fb publish. 

Whereas “the precise explanation for dying is thought,” authorities will not be releasing that data “presently because the circumstances round that occasion if launched would compromise the continued investigation,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

The 18-year-old was allegedly kidnapped from a Walmart parking zone, the place she frequently parked her automotive to take an worker bus to her job at a Panasonic manufacturing facility, round 5 a.m. on March 12.

Troy Driver, 41, has been arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection to {the teenager}’s disappearance. Lyon County Decide Lori Matheus set his bail at $750,000 throughout a listening to on Wednesday. Driver was sentenced to fifteen years in jail in 1997 for his function in protecting up a homicide and a string of robberies, in keeping with native data obtained by Information 4 and FOX 11 Reno.

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“My sister’s dying is formally being investigated as a murder,” Irion’s sister, Tamara Cartwright, wrote in a Thursday tweet.

Naomi Irion kidnapping suspect Troy Driver (Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace)

The Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Irion’s stays have been recovered within the space of Coal Canyon Highway inside Churchill County.

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“No additional data will be launched presently as that is nonetheless an open and energetic investigation,” authorities mentioned within the Fb publish. “The Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace will proceed to work intently on these instances and as updates that don’t compromise the investigation can be found we are going to relay them.”

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

Naomi Irion
(Lyon County Sheriff)

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

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

Irion grew up in a number of international locations along with her household as her dad works for the U.S. State Division within the international service.  She moved from South Africa to Nevada final August and was residing along with her brother, Casey Valley, in Nevada. 

Anybody with details about the circumstances resulting in Irion’s dying can name their native FBI subject workplace or the Lyon Sheriff’s workplace at 775-463-6620. 

Fox Information’ Paul Finest contributed to this report.