Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, the 21-year-old Ecuadorian illegal immigrant, who is accused of killing Joselyn Toaquiza on her 21st birthday, was caught taking out her limp body, by lifting her on his back, from the Airbnb they had visited, as per the footage obtained by the cops from the Airbnb’s new owner.
In the footage, he is seen walking into the Airbnb with a still-alive Joselyn Toaquiza towards the afternoon of June 18. The footage, after three hours, then goes on to show Jhon Moises carrying Toaquiza on his back, with her arms and legs limp.
The footage does not help understand if Joselyn Toaquiza was alive at that moment but she was later found buried in a shallow grave a few feet away in Lincoln Park, right across the street from the Airbnb.
Toaquiza, who was celebrating her birthday on the day of the murder, had previously studied with Jhon Moises in his native Ecuador. According to police, Jhon Moises travelled from Ecuador to Syracuse last week to meet her, having entered the US a year earlier.
He surrendered himself to federal authorities at the border, but it remains unclear where he had been staying since then. Additionally, it is unknown if he was seeking asylum. Police revealed that they arrested him earlier this week and said that Jhon Moises suffocated Joselyn Toaquiza to death.
Jhon Moises was caught by police on Wednesday in Spring Valley, a New York city approximately 370 kilometres from the crime scene.
Officers also said that the Airbnb owner, who had rented the property to the suspect, discovered blood inside the home.
After dragging Toaquiza to the driveway, the camera loses sight of the murder suspect. He later reappears on camera wearing a new set of clothes. He then hops into a waiting Lyft minivan and as per the police, drops off at a local Greyhound station from where he boarded a bus with a ticket to New York City.
He eventually surrendered to the police on Tuesday evening in Spring Valley, a city located near the New York-New Jersey border.
Jhon Moises travelled to the United States last year and surrendered himself at the border. Like many others in recent years, he was released into the country.
He was picked up by Syracuse cops on Wednesday morning and sent back to Central New York, where he was arraigned on Thursday morning.
Police also revealed that Toaquiza came from Chile and migrated to the US last year with her uncle. The pair lived together on Syracuse’s North Side, not far from the suspected crime scene.
The surveillance video, they said, was provided by the owner of the property being used as an Airbnb, who shared it with the woman’s family and police.
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