Reality star and escort discovered useless in pond as police arrest lively responsibility Marine in connection together with her homicide | EUROtoday

An active-duty Marine has been charged with the homicide of a lacking actuality star and escort after her physique was found in an Alabama pond.

Willie Richard Ellington, 20 – who was stationed at NAS Pensacola, on Florida’s Gulf Coast – was charged with first-degree homicide and possession of kid pornography Saturday, stated the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook put up Thursday.

Ellington is alleged to have murdered lacking 26-year-old Tshey Ronaie Bennett – a mom of 1 – after the pair met up on the Sweet Dreams Inn within the city of Pensacola alongside the Sunshine State’s Panhandle, round 4 p.m. Friday, stated police. Investigators imagine that she was working as an escort on the time she met up with the suspect.

After “suspicious circumstances surrounding her disappearance” her physique was discovered ditched in a pond over 50 miles away throughout state strains in an deserted neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama, Thursday, stated officers.

Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones praised the investigative efforts of his workplace and Escambia County and revealed {that a} tip-off led them to the suspect.

Jones stated, as per WKRG: “Escambia County investigators tipped us off their suspect might be on a bus scheduled to stop in Opelika.

“Our team quickly scrambled to the station and set up a surveillance operation. When the bus arrived, investigators spotted and apprehended a man matching the suspect’s description.”

Officials then discovered Bennett’s physique – who they are saying was murdered in Northwest Florida earlier than her physique was bizarrely dumped in Mobile.

Police didn’t specify how the sufferer’s physique ended up within the pond nor did they reveal the precise trigger and method of her demise.

In the Thursday assertion, police shared: “Throughout the investigation, it was determined that Tshey Bennett was working as an escort and had met the suspect at the Sweet Dreams Inn at the time of her disappearance.”

Her good friend, Muranda Newson, posted a heartfelt tribute to the 26-year-old mother and her son on Facebook: “I hate that I’m typing this. I hate that handsome boy who is hurting.

“I really really hate someone did this to you baby you didn’t deserve this at all. So sweet so smart so about your money baby I just don’t understand.”

Bennett had labored as an escort and even made an look earlier this yr on Season 1 of the HollyHoodTV collection Skrippa Bootcamp – a actuality tv present that adopted the lives of 12 ladies and their unique dance careers.

Police additionally shared the investigation had been additional sophisticated by data launched prematurely earlier than they had been in a position to notify her household and earlier than investigators had been in a position to find Ellington.

He is reportedly being held on the Lee County Detention Facility and can face extradition, in line with WRBL.