SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old girl who was found dead in a ditch on the Northeast Side has been identified.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office said Kaitlyn Elizabeth Hernandez was strangled.
San Antonio police found her body when they were called to the 7600 block of Dell Oak Drive for a report of a missing person at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Upon arrival, officers searched the area and found her phone and jacket before finding her naked body under a bridge.
Her body had signs of trauma and she was pronounced dead at 12:41 a.m. Wednesday.
According to police, she went for a walk with a neighbor on Tuesday evening but when he returned a few hours later, she wasn’t with him.
The man she was with, who is said to be a neighborhood friend, was detained for questioning.
Early Wednesday morning, SAPD released an image of a different “person of interest” on their Facebook page. They are now asking anyone with information on the person to contact the SAPD Homicide unit at 210-207-7635.
The investigation into the death is ongoing.
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