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Police find truck in connection with missing Wathena girl’s homicide

Jamie Zubia Hernandez
Jamie Zubia Hernandez

Police have located a truck wanted in connection with the killing of a teen reported missing from Wathena.

The Kansas City Star reports that police in Kansas City, Kan. recovered the truck sought in the killing of 16-year-old Jamie Hernandez-Zubia late Tuesday night.  The vehicle was unoccupied, it is currently being examined for possible evidence.

As we previously reported, she was found dead in a street early Saturday morning in Kansas City, Kan. after a report of shots being fired. According to police, the occupants of two vehicles fired shots at each other and Hernandez-Zubia had been a passenger in one of those vehicles.

She has been listed as missing since running away on June 9, 2012, from a foster care placement in Wathena in northeastern Kansas.

An investigation is ongoing, anyone with information is asked to contact the Kansas City Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-8477.

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