

The arrest records revealed distressing new details about how Heike, 29, was found with 15 stab wounds, as well as injuries to her hands and arms from seemingly trying to defend herself. He had recently been fired from his job for being “aggressive” toward female employees - and allegedly stealing clothing that matched that worn by the suspect seen fleeing the scene, according to court documents obtained by Fox10. People who “know him and worked with him” also gave statements about “a knife that would have been consistent with the murder weapon,” Maricopa County prosecutor Ryan Green told the court. “That’s me,” Zion Teasley allegedly told cops when showed an image of the suspect accused of stabbing Heike 15 times. Teasley was also linked by phone and DNA evidence, prosecutors told Friday’s hearing, with courts docs saying a preliminary match was found on one of Keike’s shoes found near her body. If I was going to do something like that, it wouldn’t be premeditated,” he said, according to documents. “I am definitely not the person who plans to kill another person. I haven’t been with anyone for a long time,'” read a probable cause statement obtained by Fox 10. “When asked why police had arrested him, Zion stated, ‘There’s no freaking way I’m here for a sex crime. “That’s me,” he told cops when shown images from the video, according to police documents in the case. Prosecutors said there was a “confluence of evidence,” including people who IDed him as the man seen running from the April 28 murder scene less than a mile from his home in Phoenix. He was held on $1 million cash bail after the court heard he had only been released from prison in November - and already had a ticket to fly to Detroit on Thursday, the day he was busted for Heike’s murder. Zion Teasley, 22, appeared in Maricopa County Court in handcuffs and an orange prison jumpsuit to face a single felony charge of first-degree murder. Mom of autistic 20-year-old who was allegedly killed by MS-13 gang member sends fiery message to BidenĪ recently released felon and one-time Marine appeared in an Arizona court Friday and was charged with the brutal murder of hiker Lauren Heike - as it emerged she’d been chased and then stabbed 15 times in the back and chest.
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