We should report a tragic finish to the frantic seek for a lacking Nevada teenager following her early morning disappearance from a Walmart car parking zone.
Naomi Irion had been ready within the car parking zone of the superstore in Fernley, Nevada at round 5:00 a.m. native time on March 12 when she disappeared. As we’ve beforehand reported, safety digital camera footage from outdoors that Walmart confirmed the 18-year-old girl sitting in her automobile when she was approached by a thriller man who mentioned or did one thing to realize entry to the within of her automobile.
From there, Irion may very well be seen within the footage shifting from the driving force’s seat over to the passenger facet. The person acquired into the automobile, and the pair drove off. Irion was reported lacking the subsequent day, and her automobile was discovered at a separate web site a number of days later, however the younger girl had vanished.
Sadly, on March 29, investigators discovered stays at a scene in Churchill County, Nevada about 150 miles away from the place Irion was first kidnapped within the metropolis of Fernley. Forensic investigators have been known as to the situation, the place they have been in a position to decide that the stays have been these of {the teenager}, confirming her tragic dying following two unsure weeks following the stunning disappearance.
After the invention, the Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace, the place Irion’s physique was discovered, launched a joint assertion with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace, who had jurisdiction the place she had initially vanished. In that launch to the media later this week, the 2 workplaces confirmed that the stays have been these of Irion and that her dying had been dominated as a murder. Nevertheless, they remained tight-lipped concerning the investigation, refusing even to launch a doable reason behind dying as they continued to work on the identification of the assailant:
“[Homicide detectives’] investigative actions led them to a doable gravesite, Washoe County Sheriff’s Workplace Forensic Investigative Providers was contacted and responded to help in processing the scene.No additional data might be launched right now as that is nonetheless an open and lively investigation.”
However now, simply days after Irion’s physique was found so removed from the place the place she initially went lacking, police have arrested and charged a person within the case.
Troy Driver (pictured in his mugshot, above) was initially arrested in reference to Irion’s disappearance again on March 25 and charged with kidnapping. After police discovered Irion’s physique 4 days later, Driver’s fees have been amended, and he now faces extra counts of homicide, housebreaking, and destruction of proof, in line with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace. In the meanwhile, Driver is in police custody on the Lyon County Jail because the investigation into the circumstances of Irion’s dying continues.
In response to The Solar, Driver’s previous features a position in a 1997 homicide in northern California. Per the outlet, police information present that Driver was charged with accent to homicide that 12 months within the Ukiah space in connection to the killing of a 19-year-old man named Paul Steven Rodriguez. Rodriguez was a “reputed methamphetamine vendor” within the space who was shot within the head by his 17-year-old girlfriend. Driver, who was additionally 17 on the time, allegedly helped the lady put Rodriguez’s physique in a automobile and drove it to close by Mendocino County, the place it was dumped.
For his position as an adjunct in that case, Driver was sentenced to fifteen years in jail; the outlet studies he served 12 years of that sentence earlier than he was launched. The information org additional studies that Driver has different offenses on his rap sheet, together with a number of housebreaking and theft fees additionally in northern California.
Right here is extra on the tragedy surrounding Irion’s dying, from KTVN 2 Information (beneath):
Such a horrible scenario.
Our hearts exit to Naomi’s household, buddies, and family members throughout this unimaginably terrible time.
R.I.P.
[Image via KTVN 2 News/YouTube]
