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http://6lawrence.com/news/crime-fir...omicide-investigation-at-cedarwood-apartments
LPD and members of the coroner's office identified the victim as 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso... On November 9, officers responded to the apartment to check on her welfare and found her dead inside the apartment...
Officials said Mosso is from Mexico and has been living in Lawrence for less than a year.
Neighbors at Cedarwood Apartments said they have heard yelling and fighting in the apartment for a while. Police previously said the scene indicates that a violent incident occurred resulting in the death.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/dec/02/police-still-no-arrests-womans-homicide-language-b/
This particular investigation has been complicated by a language barrier between officers and many individuals contacted through the course of the investigation, McKinley said. Though some investigators speak fluent Spanish, we have very few of them.