The man whose body was dumped behind a bus stop on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda in late February was killed at a College Park house after getting into a dispute with a woman he was involved with romantically, Prince George’s County police said Monday.
Three people have been charged with first-degree murder for killing 25-year-old Francisco De La O De La Cruz after a “domestic dispute” with 37-year-old Jenny Jaimes, police said.
Jenny Jaimes and her 17-year-old son, Jose Perdomo-Jaimes, have fled, police said, and warrants for their arrest on murder charges have been issued.
An 18-year-old accomplice, Juan Rivera-Ingles, of West Lanham Hills, was arrested by Montgomery County police April 16 and is in custody in Montgomery County, according to police and online court records.
Prince George’s police said they have taken over the murder investigation, which was initially handled by Montgomery County detectives after a body was found by a passerby covered by a tarp or trash bag on Feb. 25, behind the Bethesda bus stop on a wooded stretch of three-lane highway in the 10000 block of Old Georgetown Road. It took authorities about a week to identify De La O De La Cruz’s body.
Police did not elaborate on what led them to Rivera-Ingles, the mother and son other than to announce De La O De La Cruz “was in a romantic relationship with Jenny Jaimes and was living in the home where he was killed.”
A preliminary hearing for Rivera-Ingles is scheduled for Friday in Rockville. An attorney for Rivera-Ingles is not listed in court records.
Caitlynn Peetz can be reached at caitlynn.peetz@moco360.media
