In 2009, he attacked 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Amanda Jean Snell, a Naval Military Intelligence specialist, strangling her to death in the barracks area. [2] He escaped detection for the murder until he was apprehended for later crimes.

2021年3月6日 · When 20-year-old Amanda Snell, a Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, failed to show up for her shift at the Pentagon on July 12, 2009, her supervisor was immediately concerned.

2009年7月13日 · Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell, 20, was found dead in her room at the barracks at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia on July 13, 2009. Naval Criminal Investigation Services (NCIS) had jurisdiction of her case.

2012年9月11日 · MacBride charged that Torrez “did willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and with premeditation and malice aforethought kill Amanda Jean Snell.” Nearly two years had passed since Snell had been found in her locker. Torrez pleaded not guilty to the federal Snell charges and requested a jury trial.

2015年3月18日 · ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Jorge Avila Torrez, 25, of Zion, Illinois, was sentenced to death today by a federal jury for the premeditated murder on July 11, 2009 of Amanda Jean Snell, 20, in her room at Keith Hall, an enlisted barracks aboard Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall …

2011年5月26日 · ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Jorge Avila Torrez, 22, of Arlington, Va., was indicted by a federal grand jury today of murdering Amanda Jean Snell, a 20-year-old Navy petty officer found dead in her barracks room at Joint Base Myer - Henderson …

2014年4月8日 · On Tuesday, jury in US District Court in Alexandria returned a verdict of first-degree murder against the ex-Marine. Prosecutors had charged Torrez with the 2009 killing of Amanda Jean Snell, 20, a sailor who lived down the hall from him in the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall barracks.

2014年4月24日 · After Torrez, 25, was found guilty earlier this month of Navy Petty Officer Amanda Snell's murder, Torrez ordered his lawyers not to put on any defense or question the government's case...

2011年6月17日 · Torrez, 22, of Arlington has been charged with murdering 20-year-old Snell, in her barracks room at Joint Base Myer in Henderson Hall, officials said in a news release, reports CBS...

2014年5月31日 · The death sentence, handed down by federal Judge Liam O’Grady in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, was expected after a federal jury voted unanimously April 24 that Torrez should be put to death for killing Amanda Jean Snell, 20.