California: Brenda Becerra was killed by her husband César Hernández

• César Hernández, 47, is charged with the murder of his wife Brenda Becerra, 24, in California.
• Hernández, a native of Mexico, was detained at the San Ysidro border while trying to escape.
• According to the Watsonville Police Department, the man struck and suffocated the mother of his two children.

César Hernández was arrested in California accused of the murder of his wife Brenda Becerra in an incident of domestic violence.

Hernández, 47, faces second-degree murder

charges in the death of Becerra, 24, charged by the Watsonville Police Department (WPD) in Northern California.

Becerra’s death allegedly at the hands of her husband occurred in October, which since 1981 has been designated by the United States government as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

According to the arrest warrant against Hernández, consulted by MundoHispánico, the tragedy in Becerra’s death it began as a report of his disappearance.

On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 2:00 in the morning, Becerra’s parents saw their daughter arrive who was taking their two young children to take care of them for the rest of the night.

Becerra’s relatives, whose names will not be revealed to protect her identity, later told authorities that the young mother was behaving erratically and looking distraught when she arrived home.

After the woman left her family home, she was never heard from again.

After several hours of anguish because Becerra did not return for her children, her family became concerned and called the WPD to report the unusual visit of the woman at dawn and then her strange absence.

Then the officers attended the home of Becerra and her husband César Hernández and they were struck by the fact that the couple’s cars were not there.

When WPD agents discovered that the couple’s cars were not at their home, the alarms went off in the investigation of the case.

The report of the disappearance of Becerra caused a stir among the Hispanic community of Watsonville, in California, a city with a large Hispanic presence and southwest of the San Francisco metropolitan area facing the Pacific Ocean.

The investigation of the case took a dramatic turn at 12:00 on Friday, October 16, when since Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) called their WPD colleagues to report that they had found Becerra dead in her car.

Brenda Becerra was inside her vehicle parked on Mission Drive in Santa Cruz and very close to the Dignity Health Dominican Hospital right where the woman worked.

When SCPD agents found Becerra dead, the WPD issued a statement saying that César Hernández, a Mexican citizen, had become their main suspect in the death of his wife.

Becerra’s death was officially determined as an «alleged criminal act» and various corporations in California began searching for César Hernández.

Michelle Pulido, WPD spokesperson, explained to MundoHispánico that since Friday César Hernández became the alleged perpetrator in the death of his wife.

Detectives from the WPD Homicide Division, according to Pulido, determined that the woman was killed in Watsonville and then they took her dead in her own car to Santa Cruz and abandoned her there.

Finding César Hernández became the priority for WPD agents and other California corporations who calculated that the alleged perpetrator was traveling in his car.

The alert of the car in which Hernández was traveling was the clue that allowed his arrest when the man tried to escape to Mexico through the border with Tijuana in the state of Baja California.

On Monday, October 19 at 5:00 in the afternoon, agents of the Border Patrol, in the city of San Ysidro, California, they saw the car in which César Hernández was allegedly traveling and blocked his way before he entered the international bridge.

Federal agents turned Hernández over to San Diego Police Department (SAPD) to be held at their facility until detectives from the WPD Homicide Division came to arrest him.

On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, César Hernández arrived in Watsonville and entered the prison of the Santa Cruz County accused of the death of his wife.

The official cause of Brenda Becerra’s death was officially determined by forensic doctors as a severe blow to the face, with some heavy object, and then she was suffocated.

In the arrest warrant against César Hernández it is detailed that the man had two children with Brenda Becerra and both are less than four years old.

At the time of writing this story, it had not yet been determined when the first hearing will be in the case against Hernández for the murder of his wife and that has shaken the Hispanic community in California. So far the man has not confessed why he allegedly killed his wife.

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