Authorities have identified two men as persons of interest in connection with the armed carjacking and homicide of a Homestead woman in central Florida earlier this month.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma announced the new developments in the killing of 31-year-old Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas at a news conference Friday.
One of the persons of interest, 28-year-old Jordanish Torres-Garcia, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on charges unrelated to the killing, Lemma said.
A second person of interest, 27-year-old Giovany Crespo Hernández, is on the run, Lemma said.
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Investigators said Torres-García bought the green Acura used in the April 11 abduction of Aguasvivas.
Video recorded by a witness showed the shocking moment in which, at gunpoint, a man approached Aguasvivas' vehicle and got inside.
Authorities believe she was forced to drive to a location in Osceola County where she was shot to death before her vehicle was set on fire.
It's not Torres-Garcia's first encounter with the criminal world. In 2015, he was arrested in Puerto Rico when police found rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests at his residence.
Jordanish, or as he goes by Jordan, is wanted for gun charges in Puerto Rico, according to Lemma. Telemundo Puerto Rico reported in 2022 that he was considered "highly dangerous."
In 2019, Torres-García stopped appearing in court and has remained a fugitive since. Now authorities in Seminole believe that he was the one who targeted Aguasvivas.
Jordanish appears in a Facebook profile picture image under a different name, apparently wearing the same clothes he had on the day of the fatal carjacking, according to authorities.
Homestead woman's fatal carjacking
Lemma also said there appears to be a connection between Aguasvivas and Hernandez, who was possibly known to her.
According to the Seminole sheriff, the victim's brother contacted a man he believes to be the last person to be in contact with Katherine.
The vehicle used in the fatal kidnapping was located last week and is linked to another murder, while an Orange County police officer was arrested for seeking information from police using a false name to give to Katherine's family.
The police reported that neither the victim's husband nor her brother are suspects and that they are cooperating with the case, although their behavior "is out of the ordinary."
Detectives say this is a very difficult case to investigate and has taken unexpected turns.
