Police: Husband killed wife amid divorce and staged her body in the back of wheel of SUV

Police: Husband killed wife amid divorce and staged her body at the back of wheel of SUV

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The husband of the woman found useless in a parked vehicle in Massachusetts has been charged with homicide, the Middlesex County District lawyer referred to.

Hongyan sun, 50, of Lexington, has been arrested and charged with homicide in reference to the dying of his spouse, Shen Cai, forty nine, of Lexington.

Cai's body became found in a parked automobile on Worthen road, which is close the excessive school, at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

District lawyer Marian Ryan mentioned chums final noticed the woman on may additionally 28. On may additionally 29, her chums grew to be worried after Cai neglected two scheduled appointments. They called 911 after discovering her unresponsive in the driver's seat of a white Honda CRV.

The girl became suggested dead on the scene. Ryan talked about Cai suffered assorted blunt trauma.

"Investigators accompanied some suspicious trauma to the body at the scene and the office of the chief scientific Examiner took possession of the physique in an effort to determine the manner of demise, which changed into subsequently dominated a homicide," Ryan pointed out.

After an autopsy of Cai, the workplace of the chief medical Examiner ruled her loss of life a murder with the aid of mechanical asphyxiation.

Investigators pointed out Cai and her husband have been within the manner of going via a divorce and that she had said to her pals and her legal professional a historical past of verbal abuse and controlling conduct, in addition to one prior instance of physical violence.

The District lawyer's workplace spoke of Cai additionally advised pals she feared for her safety.

Investigators declare there became a physical altercation between Cai and solar on may 28, with accidents to both the victim and the suspect that have been in line with a violent combat.

Police pointed out after the fight of their domestic, Cai's physique become allegedly staged and left in her car on Worthen street in an obvious attempt to lie to law enforcement.

solar might be arraigned Thursday in harmony District court docket.