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Josue Ramirez-Marinero, 5, was discovered dead in a Nebraska river five days after his brother was found alive in a dumpster and his mother killed in Omaha, authorities say.
A Nebraska boat crew found a little boy’s lifeless body along the banks of a river on Monday — five days after his little brother was left alive in a dumpster.
Josue Ramirez-Marinero, 5, was tangled in tree limbs at the edge of the Elkhorn River when a Waterloo fire rescue team spotted him, authorities said at a news conference.
The small child was still alive when an older half-brother, 25-year-old Roberto Martinez-Marinero, launched him off a bridge into the rushing water on Wednesday, shortly after murdering his mother and kidnapping a younger brother, 18-month-old Angel Ramirez-Marinero, a prosecutor said.
"Why anyone would do these kinds of acts, it's hard to imagine what was going through anyone's mind," Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said at a news conference.
Prosecutors will pursue the death penalty for the brutal crimes, Klein said.
The case began as a missing persons case early Wednesday morning, unfolding in bizarre fashion after a man at a suburban Omaha apartment complex found Angel crying but healthy in a dumpster later that evening.
Omaha cops recovered the body of the boy’s mother, 45-year-old Jesus Isemnia Marinero, the same night, but Josue remained missing until Monday.
The grim discovery of the child confirmed investigators’ suspicions the child had been tossed in the river.
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Roberto Martinez-Marinero was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother, and his girlfriend, Gabriela Guevara, was charged as an accessory.
Martinez-Marinero turned himself in on Friday for the murder of their mother. He stabbed her and bashed her in the face with a baseball bat, Kleine said.
The grown son told detectives he stabbed his mother to death in a fight over money, the Omaha World-Herald reported, citing a police source.
Both of the little boys were in the house when their mother was killed, Kleine said. Martinez-Romero allegedly abducted them when it was over, abandoning Angel in the dumpster and flinging Josue into the river.
Stone-faced police and firefighter rescue crews told reporters gathered along the river on Monday a boat team found the boy at 10:23 a.m., a mile north of the West Center Road bridge in western Omaha suburb of Elkhorn.
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Searchers comb Nebraska’s Elkhorn River for 5-year-old Josue Ramirez-Marinero, who was discovered along the banks on Monday, authorities say.
Omaha Fire Department divers pulled the child from the river an hour later, authorities said.
A forensic examination is expected to confirm the identity, police said.
Martinez-Marinero has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder along with kidnapping and weapons crimes.
His girlfriend, 24-year-old Gabriela Guevara, was arrested on Saturday. She's facing five counts of accessory to a felony for lying to cops and hiding evidence, authorities said.
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