Rosalinda Reyna,Martha Velasquez Reyna Obituary, Death; – Police in Salina, investigating a double homicide, have identified the deceased women as 64-year-old Rosalinda Reyna and 84-year-old Martha Velasquez Reyna, both residents of Salina, according to a statement from the Salina Police Department. The police reported that the cause of death was blunt force trauma.
Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, officers were dispatched to a domestic disturbance at a residence located in the 700 block of Vassar Drive in Salina, as indicated in a media release. First responders discovered the two women deceased in the driveway of the property.
Subsequently, law enforcement located the suspect, identified as 35-year-old Preston James Reyna, a few blocks away from the incident scene and apprehended him without any resistance.
Reyna, also from Salina, is currently being held on charges that include two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated domestic violence battery, aggravated kidnapping, two counts of domestic violence battery, and domestic violence damage to property.
Since 2014, Reyna has been registered as an offender following a conviction in Saline County for second-degree murder in 2009. According to the Associated Press, he was to undergo evaluation at Larned State Hospital after pleading guilty to unintentional second-degree murder in the death of Nicolas Chavez Castro, whom he fatally assaulted with a board.
During the trial, Reyna’s mother, Rosalinda Reyna, testified that on the day of Castro’s death, she sought assistance to take her son to the Salina Regional Health Center. Prosecutors alleged that Castro was killed because Reyna mistakenly believed he had kidnapped and raped his mother. Reyna has a prior diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
