Selena Alvarez-Hernández
Age 3231 Jul 2003
Council Bluffs, Iowa (USA)
Stabbed
TDoR list ref: tdor.info/31 Jul 2003/Selena çlvarez-Hernández
Selena was stabbed multiple times in the chest, abdomen, and arms outside of an apartment complex. In 2014 James Cain Harris, 36, was convicted of first degree murder.
Harris had repeatedly stabbed Selena while robbing her.
In the early morning hours on July 31, 2003, [deadname] Selena” Alvarez-Hernandez, 33, was stabbed to death in front of an apartment building located at 1613 So. 13th St. in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Officers were dispatched at 1:59 a.m. to Apartment #1 regarding a disturbance, and reported that upon arrival they located a Hispanic [female] lying on the ground in front of the apartment building. [She] had been stabbed eight times.
The victim — who carried several ID cards and whose identity was not immediately known — was transported by ambulance to Creighton Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., where [she] died from [her] injuries.
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/nelson-alvarez-hernandez/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-murder-of-transg/143693016/
https://www.advocate.com/news/2003/09/09/vigil-held-murdered-iowa-resident-9794
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-murder-of-transg/143693125/
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/omaha-world-herald-murder-of-selena-alva/143695593/
