An illegal immigrant was charged with the murder of a Virginia man, who was allegedly stabbed and staggered into a woman’s home before he died.
Jose Velasquez-Martinez, a 27-year-old El Salvador native, allegedly stabbed Brandon Probst, 29, in the neck. The incident followed an altercation on March 27 outside a woman’s residence in Warrenton, Virginia, according to a Monday report citing the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office.
Probst entered the home of Joette Breeden, who discovered him bleeding at approximately 10:00 p.m., according to the report.
🚨 Fauquier County, VA: Illegal alien Jose Velasquez-Martinez was arrested for Murder in the stabbing death of Brandon Probst.
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Breeden alerted emergency officials, and Probst was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Although Breeden did not know who stabbed Probst, Velasquez-Martinez was taken into custody on March 31 and charged with murder and malicious wounding, according to authorities.
Velasquez-Martinez was confirmed as an illegal immigrant by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Jose Velasquez-Martinez, 27, is an illegally present Salvadoran national,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement to Fox 5 DC. “He illegally entered the United States on an unknown date in 2011, at an unknown location, and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.”
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Breeden said bad actors are a consequence of illegal immigration.
“I think there’s a lot of illegal immigrants here,” she said. “I think some are here honestly trying to make a better life for themselves, but unfortunately, among those, there are people like this that we come across.”