Nicolle Tome and Yudi Ruiz: Two women charged with evidence tampering in Irving mother-daughter murders as search for suspect continues
IRVING, TEXAS: Irving police recently arrested two women in connection with the double murder of a mother and daughter in Irving, Texas.
Earlier, the police department had released photos of 33-year-old Hector Matute, who was accused of killing 23-year-old Nayeli Bolanos Medina and her mother, 56-year-old Juana Medina Rodriguez. For context, police are still searching for Matute who is charged with capital murder in this case.
How are the two arrested women linked to Hector Matute?
The mother and daughter were shot in their apartment. Earlier, the police said that the shooter was still on the run.
The family of the deceased mother and daughter are now demanding justice. Candles and flowers covered the front steps of the Irving Apartment where the crime was committed.
Now in a latest development, 34-year-old Nicolle Martinez Tome and 30-year-old Yudi Mabel Paguada Ruiz have been charged with tampering with evidence, as per Fox News .
According to police, they helped Hector Vicente Paguada, who also goes by Hector Matute, avoid arrest and tampered with evidence.
As per the police, the mother and daughter were killed on January 19 at the Park Springs apartments on West Irving Boulevard.
No details have been released on how Ruiz and Tome are accused of helping Paguada. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call police at: 972-721-2604 or mailto:sherring@cityofirving.org.
'I was in shock'
The family of the deceased mother and daughter are now demanding justice. Candles and flowers covered the front steps of the Irving apartment where the crime was committed.
"When I got the news, I was in shock," Tamara, Juana Medina's close friend said. "Juana’s always gonna be remembered as a beautiful person in my heart, always," the friend added.
Tamara said her friend "loved being a grandma".
Elvis (Juana's son) is still processing life without his mother and sister.
Additionally, the family received assistance from the El Salvadorian consulate in Dallas for the funeral preparations so that the mother and daughter could be buried in their native country.
