Family of woman found dead in L.A. homeless encampment say questions remain

The family members of a 46 -year -old woman, an old warrior in the American army and a mother of six children, are speaking dead in a homeless camp, and exchange their concerns with the Los Angeles Times on how the police deal with the investigation.

Lucresia Macias Barajas and an unidentified man were found dead inside the temporary pavement tent that was locked in the Witkelist area in Los Angeles on May 12.

The horrific discovery was discovered by a Barajas girls who tracked her mother’s mobile phone to the site. The video, which was taken at the scene of the accident, showed the young woman on the ground, crying, and then, the police are asking to get her mother’s body out of the tent.

However, the officers waited because two live dogs, a bull mixture of a hole and a mixture of shepherd, one of them was in the body of Parajas, still in the tent.

The daughter of the 46 -year -old girl was told The Times The body of her mother was not removed from the tent until early in the next day, after he answered animal services, which are now holding dogs as evidence, to the scene of the accident.

According to the daughter, which she did not want to get to know, the bodies of Paraguas and the bodies of the male victim were in the tent with dogs for at least eight hours after finding them.

According to what was reported, Paraguas was given a LAPD card around the case with the phrase “achieving an overdose” written on her back and now says that the police were very fast to exclude the killing.

  • A homeless camp appears in the Witkelik area in Los Angeles on May 14, 2025, after the bodies of two people were found. (Ktla)
  • Lucia Barajas, 46, was seen an old warrior in the army and a mother of six children, in a family image.
  • A homeless camp appears in the Witkelik area in Los Angeles on May 14, 2025, after the bodies of two people were found. (Ktla)
  • Lucia Barajas was seen with family members and loved ones.

She was born in Nikwaraga, Paraguce fled with her family in 1986 amid the country’s civil war. She later joined the US military between the late nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century. Girls told the Times newspaper that they believed that their mother began to use metamafitamine in 2017, as a way to manage six children, work and combat lymphoma.

The children are said to have never realized their mother’s drug, although she later ended in the street with addiction to the medicine before returning to her family.

While her daughters are not sure why she went to the camp along the Hintley circle near the center of Los Angeles on that day, they told the Times that there are conditions surrounding her death that is still suspicious.

One of their issues related to the “excessive investigation of the excess dose” is that the tent found by the mother and the other man was secured with a lock from the outside from the entrance, indicating that a third party could have spoiled it while leaving the scene.

In addition, a 25 -year -old man, Hans Salinas, told the Times that he and his girlfriend woke up at about 3:30 am at that morning to the voices of a man and a woman arguing, followed by the screaming of a woman to help and then silence.

It is said that the application used by the daughter to track her mother’s mobile phone to the area shows the 46 -year -old girl who reaches two hours before Salinas and his girlfriend heard screaming.

Paraguas girls also believe that the police have failed to secure the crime scene, which allowed the security cameras associated with a temporary structure, along with the mobile phone of their mother, which was followed to a thirty -hour garden from removing the bodies of the victims from the tent.

“Ensuring the family gets the answers they deserve.”

Meanwhile, family members continue their unimaginable loss.

One of her daughters told KTLA: “I want people to know that she was not a shelter drug addict, because this is not true.” “Some people come to this conclusion, and this is not fair. It was in the wrong place in the wrong time.”

Gofundme has been organized for the family It can be found here.

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