Police identify young woman found dead in East Boston garage
The young woman found dead from “traumatic injuries” in an East Boston garage last week has been identified as 19-year-old Blanca Lainez, Boston police announced Saturday.
Lainez was found Wednesday morning by construction workers in the garage at 54 Princeton St., where they had been working on the house. Two of the workers told the Boston Herald this week that Lainez’s face was”covered in blood” and that she was lying on top of pieces of wood with her arm over her face.
Upon arrival to the scene, police pronounced Lainez dead. Her death is considered “very suspicious,” Boston police told the Herald at the time of the discovery.
A woman who left flowers and candles at the scene Saturday and said she was Lainez’s roommate told The Boston Globe that the 19-year-old lived in Chelsea.
According to the Globe, police spent several hours Thursday at a neighboring home at which the owner said he had recently installed surveillance cameras.
“What we’d like is if anyone in the neighborhood saw anything or heard anything, if they saw any individuals in the area that were out of place, or normally don’t belong in this area, we’d like to know about that,” Boston Police Superintendent Bernard O’Rouke told the Herald, adding that it was unclear how long Lainez’s body was in the garage, but that they believe her death is pretty recent.
The department is continuing to investigate the situation, police said Saturday.
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