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Two people who lived in Fort Wayne a month ago are in a South Dakota jail on charges they stabbed a high school student to death and burned her body.
Alexander Salgado, 20, and his 15-year-old girlfriend are accused of killing 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara in rural Hanson County, S.D., on Tuesday after the 15-year-old became jealous that Guevara was stealing Salgado’s affections, the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D., reported. Police believe that the pair moved to the nearby city of Mitchell from Fort Wayne about a month ago.
Salgado had two traffic offenses listed in Allen County – he was charged in 2005 with never having received a license and then in 2006 with driving with a suspended license. He also has a juvenile criminal record in Fort Wayne, though police could not release specifics, according to police spokeswoman officer Liza Thomas.
The Newport Avenue apartment near North Clinton Street that was listed as his last known Fort Wayne address sat empty Friday. The name of the 15-year-old was not released.
According to court documents, Salgado’s girlfriend began to suspect that Salgado and Guevara were becoming romantically involved after a party Sunday, so she persuaded her boyfriend to kill the girl.
The two former Indiana residents asked Guevara for a ride to Walmart, where they bought a bottle of lighter fluid. The three drove into Hansen County where Salgado and his girlfriend stabbed Guevara and cut her throat, court documents said. They then put her body in the trunk of her car and set it on fire, the Argus Leader reported. Both confessed to the murder when questioned by police, the newspaper reported.
The Associated Press and Rebecca S. Green of The Journal Gazette contributed to this story.
