Maryland police say they’ve few new clues concerning the identification of who killed Rachel Morin, a mom of 5 from Bel Air, after asserting final week they discovered a DNA pattern matching the unidentified man they imagine to be the assassin.
“He still poses a threat wherever he’s laying his head and we need to get him off the street,” Harford County sheriff Jeffrey Gahler advised NewsNation on Friday.
“The public will not be safe until we get him in custody.”
On 17 August, the sheriff’s workplace introduced it used DNA proof collected on the scene of Morin’s 5 August murder to determine a possible suspect.
The genetic materials matched a pattern discovered on the scene of a March residence invasion in Los Angeles the place a younger woman was attacked.
“Unfortunately that suspect has not been positively identified, but he did leave behind his DNA,” Harford County police colonel William Davis stated throughout a press convention asserting the invention. “Based on the DNA evidence, we consider the individual in the video we received from the Los Angeles Police Department to be the person that murdered Rachel Morin on August 5.”
The sheriff’s workplace believes {that a} man filmed exiting the LA residence invasion is identical one who killed Rachel Morin.
Maryland police imagine Rachel Morin was killed by a person seen exiting a house invasion in Los Angeles earlier this yr, based mostly on DNA proof
(Harford County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland Police)
Since then, police haven’t made any main developments in figuring out the person seen on surveillance footage, who was described by police as a Hispanic man in his 20s.
“The majority of tips that come in aren’t going to really advance the investigation. We’re still looking for that one,” Sheriff Gahler advised NewsNation. “Someone out there knows who this individual is in the picture…They need to come forward and share that information.”
Otherwise, the regulation enforcement official warned, the killer is “not going to stop.”
Other than the match to the LA crime scene, police are nonetheless puzzled concerning the suspect’s whereabouts, with Sheriff Gahler saying the person might now not be within the US for all police know.
The Harford County Sheriff’s Office has stated it’s working with DNA specialists on the FBI to proceed probing the proof.
Morin, a mom of 5 residing in Bel Air, Maryland, was final seen heading to the Ma & Pa Trail round 6pm on 5 August.
Her boyfriend Richard Tobin reporter her lacking later that night.
Morin’s physique was discovered the next day, and her dying is being investigated as a murder.
Police have beforehand stated a bunch of 5 witnesses had been on the path on the similar time Morin was killed.
“We are grieving. We need the time and space to grieve as a family. We have not forgotten our community,” Morin’s mom wrote in a social media put up this month.