Arrest Made in Cold Case Murder of Teen Elena Lasswell After 20 Years [Video]

Originally appeared on E! Online

The family of Elena Lasswell is finally getting answers.

Two decades to the day after the 15-year-old was murdered in Phoenix, Arizona, Sergio Francisco Reyes has been arrested Phoenix Police Department said in a July 11 press release shared with E! News July 11.

Reyes was extradited from Mexico where he had been living on July 10 and booked into Maricopa County Jail on six charges, including sexual assault and first-degree murder, as well as criminal trespass, burglary and kidnapping.

The 37-year-old’s arrest comes on a particularly poignant day as exactly 20 years ago on July 10, 2004 Phoenix police officers “responded to a house in the neighborhood of 2700 North 21st Drive” just after 8 p.m. and were directed to a room where they found Lasswell.

“Emergency lifesaving measures were attempted,” the press release read, “but Lasswell did not survive her injuries and was pronounced deceased on scene.”

At the time, detectives …