Autopsy confirms Mercedez beaten to death
Crime
June 9, 2026
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Sascha Wilson
Even with the arrest of a suspect in the brutal murder of his daughter, the grieving father of 12-year-old Mercedez Layne says nothing will ease the pain or erase the violent manner in which she lost her life.
As tears rolled down his cheeks, Ronald Cabrera said an autopsy at the Forensic Science Centre yesterday confirmed her cause of death as multiple blunt force injuries, confirming his suspicion that she had been beaten to death.
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