Indiana HS football player charged with murder of pregnant cheerleader found in trash bin
Police in Indiana have arrested a 16-year-old high school football player in the murder of a pregnant cheerleader at his school.
Aaron Trejo, 16, is charged with one count of murder and one count of feticide. He was arrested Sunday morning after the body of 17-year-old Breana Rouhselang was found in a dumpster behind a restaurant in Mishawaka, Indiana about a block away from her home.
Victim was 6 months pregnant
Police began searching for Rouhselang after her family reported her missing and had “the feeling something wasn’t right,” police told the Associated Press. Her mother told WNDU that she was six months pregnant.
Police told reporters that Rouhselang, a junior at Mishawaka High School, was a softball player and a football team manager in addition to being a cheerleader.
Victim, suspect knew each other from football team
Investigators told reporters that Rouhselang and Trejo knew each other from the football team, but did not elaborate on the nature of their relationship.
“The thing is that most of us are fathers, and any senseless death is very upsetting. But when you’re talking about young people, it’s more so,” St. Joseph County Deputy Prosecutor Chris Fronk said. “Victims’, suspects’ families, those are the kind of people we keep our focus on, because they didn’t choose this.”
Trejo will be tried as an adult.
“The juvenile court has no jurisdiction over someone charged with murder if they are 16 years of age or older,” St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter told the Indianapolis Star.
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