A Minnesota man has been arrested for the September 2023 killing of a Los Angeles mannequin in her high-end downtown residence the place she was discovered sure and gagged inside a fridge, authorities mentioned.
Magnus Daniel Humphrey, who was on probation for federal narcotics offenses, was taken into custody at his house in Minnesota on an unrelated federal warrant, the Los Angeles Police Division mentioned Wednesday.
He now faces a homicide cost within the demise of Maleesa Mooney, the LAPD mentioned.
Mooney, 31, was discovered lifeless in her residence on Sept. 12, 2023 throughout a police welfare test requested by her household. She was final seen alive on Sept. 6 on surveillance cameras in her residence complicated.
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Her physique confirmed proof of blunt power trauma, together with abrasions, lacerations and contusions round her head and neck, physique and extremities, based on an post-mortem reported obtained by Fox Los Angeles.
Her physique was “wedged contained in the fridge” with blood on the ground exterior of it, the report mentioned. Her wrists and ankles had been sure and bindings “had been tied to one another behind her again with miscellaneous digital cords and clothes gadgets. Different clothes gadgets had been discovered round her face and neck.”
A bit of clothes was stuffed in her mouth, the report mentioned.
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Safety video from the residence constructing additionally captured a male utilizing her key FOB to enter the elevator after which carrying plastic baggage to her unit, police mentioned.
Authorities haven’t disclosed Humphrey’s relationship with Mooney or a motive for the killing. Her demise was dominated a murder and a toxicology report mentioned cocaine was present in her system.
Mooney was two months pregnant when she died, her household mentioned. She primarily labored as an actual property agent with NestSeekers Worldwide exhibiting million greenback properties however was going again into modeling, her sister, Jourdin Pauline, beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital.
Mooney’s physique was discovered two days after one other girl, Nichole Coats, 32, an aspiring mannequin, was discovered lifeless inside her downtown residence close by. Investigators decided the deaths weren’t associated.
