Police find car connected to missing teen, homicide in Los Angeles



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Police found a vehicle on Friday near the Mexican border that had been linked to a missing teenager and an investigation into a homicide in the Los Angeles area.

The 2013 white BMW with Nevada plates was found unoccupied Friday by San Diego police near the San Ysidro Mexican border, tweeted the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The drivers, Roman Cerratos and Maricela Mercado, are suspected of killing a 32-year-old man in the city of Carson, in Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department said. Mercado is the mother of 15-year-old Alora Benitez, who received an Amber Alert on Thursday.

Benitez was last seen Wednesday in Torrance, California, with Mercado, 40, and Cerratos, 39, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The homicide victim, Jeffrey Appel, was found dead in a white Audi in Carson around 4 pm on April 16, officials said.

The two suspects are considered "armed and dangerous," according to the Amber Alert poster. "The adults have left the South Bay area with Alora Benitez, a child, and may be in the San Diego area."

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