Missing Nevada Teen’s Body Found – Alleged Kidnapper Now Facing Murder & Other Charges

We should report a tragic finish to the frantic seek for a lacking Nevada teenager following her early morning disappearance from a Walmart car parking zone.

Naomi Irion had been ready within the car parking zone of the superstore in Fernley, Nevada at round 5:00 a.m. native time on March 12 when she disappeared. As we’ve beforehand reported, safety digicam footage from exterior that Walmart confirmed the 18-year-old girl sitting in her automotive when she was approached by a thriller man who stated or did one thing to realize entry to the within of her automotive.

From there, Irion might be seen within the footage shifting from the motive force’s seat over to the passenger facet. The person bought into the automotive, and the pair drove off. Irion was reported lacking the following day, and her automotive was discovered at a separate website a number of days later, however the younger girl had vanished.

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Sadly, on March 29, investigators discovered stays at a scene in Churchill County, Nevada about 150 miles away from the place Irion was first kidnapped within the metropolis of Fernley. Forensic investigators had been referred to as to the placement, the place they had been capable of decide that the stays had been these of {the teenager}, confirming her tragic dying following two unsure weeks following the surprising disappearance.

After the invention, the Churchill County Sheriff’s Workplace, the place Irion’s physique was discovered, launched a joint assertion with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace, who had jurisdiction the place she had initially vanished. In that launch to the media later this week, the 2 places of work confirmed that the stays had been these of Irion and that her dying had been dominated as a murder. Nevertheless, they remained tight-lipped in regards to the investigation, refusing even to launch a attainable reason behind dying as they continued to work on the identification of the assailant:

“[Homicide detectives’] investigative actions led them to a attainable gravesite, Washoe County Sheriff’s Workplace Forensic Investigative Providers was contacted and responded to help in processing the scene.No additional info will be launched right now as that is nonetheless an open and lively investigation.”

However now, simply days after Irion’s physique was found so removed from the place the place she initially went lacking, police have arrested and charged a person within the case.

Troy Driver (pictured in his mugshot, above) was initially arrested in reference to Irion’s disappearance again on March 25 and charged with kidnapping. After police discovered Irion’s physique 4 days later, Driver’s fees had been amended, and he now faces further counts of homicide, housebreaking, and destruction of proof, based on the Lyon County Sheriff’s Workplace. In the meanwhile, Driver is in police custody on the Lyon County Jail because the investigation into the circumstances of Irion’s dying continues.

In accordance with The Solar, Driver’s previous features a position in a 1997 homicide in northern California. Per the outlet, police information present that Driver was charged with accent to homicide that yr within the Ukiah space in connection to the killing of a 19-year-old man named Paul Steven Rodriguez. Rodriguez was a “reputed methamphetamine vendor” within the space who was shot within the head by his 17-year-old girlfriend. Driver, who was additionally 17 on the time, allegedly helped the girl put Rodriguez’s physique in a automotive and drove it to close by Mendocino County, the place it was dumped.

For his position as an adjunct in that case, Driver was sentenced to fifteen years in jail; the outlet studies he served 12 years of that sentence earlier than he was launched. The information org additional studies that Driver has different offenses on his rap sheet, together with a number of housebreaking and theft fees additionally in northern California.

Right here is extra on the tragedy surrounding Irion’s dying, from KTVN 2 Information (under):