MISHAWAKA, IN. (THECOUNT) — Aaron Trejo has been identified as the 16-year-old football player from Indiana accused of murdering Breana Rouhselang, a classmate and cheerleader, who was six months pregnant, police said
Police discovered Rouhselang’s body in a dumpster behind a restaurant near her Mishawaka, Indianapolis home on Sunday morning after her family reported her missing, sources reported.
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Rouhselang and Trejo knew each other from the school’s football team, police said, without elaborating on their relationship. Rouhselang was the football team’s manager, her family said.
Shortly after finding the body, police took Aaron Trejo, a classmate of Rouhselang’s at Mishawaka High School, into custody on a preliminary murder charge. He was scheduled to be charged as an adult on Monday morning, police said Sunday.
Police did not announce an official cause of death but say Rouhselang was shot, stabbed, or both, WSBT reported. An official autopsy was scheduled for some time this week. source
Meg Sauer, chief communications officer for the northern Indiana school district, said the school is doing its best to support students following the death.
“We’re just focusing on healing the kids,” Meg Sauer, chief communications officer for the northern Indiana school district, told the Indianapolis Star.
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