A Silver Spring man is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the Oct. 22 death of his roommate, whose body was found in the bushes of a local bus stop, according to Montgomery County police.
On Friday, detectives arrested and charged Abraham Luna Perez, 26, police said Tuesday in a statement. He is being held without bond in the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit. Information about Perez’s attorney was not available through Maryland online court records as of Wednesday morning.
At roughly 2:40 p.m. Oct. 22, officers and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) crews responded to the 9300 block of Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring, where they found 19-year-old Diego Edilberto Borja-Cardona with trauma to his body, according to police. Borja-Cardona was pronounced dead at the scene. No information about the type of trauma was provided.
According to radio transmissions, police responded for the report of a “code” behind the bushes at the bus stop. A “code” is a common term used in emergency radio transmissions to refer to a person who is dead. The dispatcher added that the caller said the man was “obviously not breathing and unconscious.”
The victim was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. The medical examiner determined the manner of death to be a homicide, according to police.
The bus stop where Borja-Cardona’s body was found is near the Forest Park Apartments and the intersection of Piney Branch Road and New Hampshire Avenue.
MoCo360 reporter Elia Griffin contributed to this report.
