ROBESON COUNTY, NC. (THECOUNT) — Michael Ray McLellan has been identified as the suspect arrested in the kidnapping and killing 13-year-old Hania Aguilar.
FBI and Lumberton Police arrested McLellan, 34, who went before a state magistrate at the Robeson County Detention Center early Saturday. He is being held on a no-bond order.
McLellan has been charged with 10 felonies, including first degree murder and statutory rape of a person under age 15.
Aguilar was kidnapped from outside her Lumberton, North Carolina home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park. She was waiting for the rest of her family to come outside and drive to school the morning of November 5 when someone snatched her and drove off in her family’s idling SUV. source
Authorities issued an Amber Alert at the time.
A witness claimed they observed a man dressed in black and wearing a yellow bandanna force Hania into the vehicle.
Her body was found about three weeks later in water off a nearby rural road.
Her funeral is scheduled for Saturday.
Orrum is a town in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 91 at the 2010 census, according to Wikipedia.
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