‘No One Deserves To Be Handled This Method’

Chanti Dixon went missing on Sunday morning, solely to be found ineffective on Monday afternoon throughout the metropolis’s southeast. Police arrested Francisco Valadez, the 29-year-old rideshare driver.

“That’s disgusting, disturbing, and no person deserves to be dealt with this vogue,” IMPD Chief Chris Bailey talked about all through a data conference Tuesday afternoon.

Police talked about Dixon ordered an Uber spherical 3:30am after she accomplished work on Sunday morning, nonetheless was not heard from after. Her family than reported her missing the following morning and was able to monitor her via her phone, per police.

Anyone all through the neighborhood found Dixon’s physique and often known as 911. Particulars from the Uber app then led police to Valadez.

Dixon was found outdoor of a house in a wooded area with a gunshot wound to the highest, per authorities. She was “naked, unresponsive and lying on her stomach,” per WXIN. She was reportedly pronounced ineffective on the scene.

In accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by WTHR, detectives say Valadez admitted to capturing Dixon throughout the head whereas he was making an attempt to have intercourse collectively along with her behind his automotive. Valadez claimed a comment Dixon talked about made him mad — she insulted his physique, per WXIN — so he allegedly turned enraged and shot her.

The publication well-known the paperwork moreover talked about that Valadez allegedly instructed detectives he dragged Dixon’s physique from his automotive and put it behind a concrete barrier on the ineffective end of Wagner Lane. He moreover reportedly instructed them he tried to have intercourse collectively along with her physique.

Assistant Chief Catherine Cummings instructed reporters that the murder “hits otherwise for me” because of she’s a girl.

“Girls, girls, mothers, they’ve a correct to exist freely in our neighborhood with out fear of 1 factor heinous going down to them,” she talked about. “They’ve a correct to walk, bike, order a rideshare.”

Police talked about Valadez was arrested on a preliminary price of murder, though IMPD Chief Chris Bailey instructed reporters, per WXIN, he believes additional bills shall be forthcoming as a result of the investigation continues.