A jury found Erick Hernandez-Mendez guilty Wednesday of stabbing his wife to death in their Raleigh apartment, a death that came days after he married her for legal immigration status. The family of Christina Matos, 20 years old when she was found dead in the Hillborough Street apartment in 2021, bowed their heads and hugged. […]
For the second-straight day, Erick Hernandez-Mendez took the stand in his own trial for murder and denied killing Christina Maria Matos, the young Raleigh woman he married days before her stabbing death. The 23-year-old maintained in Wake County Superior Court that he wed 20-year-old Matos as a “sham” only to keep legal immigration status. He […]