Crime & Safety
Fayetteville man surrenders in Connecticut, confessed to murder
Child is safe with grandparents and was unharmed when found Tuesday.
According to the police, Alexander Zelaya, of Fayetteville, accused of killing his girlfriend and kidnapping their daughter has surrendered in New Haven. He has confessed to the murder of his girlfriend, Miriam Latisha Reyes at her Fayetteville home on Tuesday.
Zelaya is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge.
He then told West Haven, Conn., police that "he was afraid officers would kill him because he had left his daughter at what he thought was a truck stop and had killed someone in North Carolina," police said in a WRAL news report.
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Zelaya's 22-month old toddler, Juliana was found by a delivery driver on Tuesday in front of closed grocery store in Newport News, Va. with a dirty diaper and wearing only a t-shirt. She is safely back with her maternal grandparents in Fayetteville.
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