PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say a young Portland man sought on a murder warrant for three years walked back across the border from Mexico and surrendered after receiving a phone call from his jailed mother.
Detectives say 23-year-old Raymundo Marquez-Vela turned himself in after his mother told him police had accused both his parents of hindering prosecution and thrown them in jail. The Oregon Department of Human Services also took his three younger siblings into temporary custody.
Last week, Marquez-Vela appeared in Multnomah County Circuit Court to hear accusations that he used a barbecue carving fork to fatally stab a man who’d tried to stop him from beating his girlfriend in August 2007.
Both parents have been released from jail pending trial and the children have been released from state custody.
