Man Charged with Murdering Mother in Portland

0:00A 32-year-old man named Dariel Nunez Montero faces first-degree murder charges for stabbing Courtney Clinton to death in Portland last year. While her baby was in the car, he showed up in Clark County Superior Court on Thursday and is now held without bail. He's also charged as a fugitive from justice. Earlier this week, the judge pushed the bail call until his arraignment on Wednesday at 9am. Nunez Montero spent a full year in a Kentucky jail. On organized crime charges tied to a diesel theft ring where he just pleaded guilty before getting shipped back here, Clinton was 25, and her family has her infant now. They even set up a GoFundMe to help with childcare costs. This hit close to home since her 25-year-old brother Dante Mathis got shot dead at a Portland motel just four months before her killing. Investigators linked him through cell phone pings from an escort site, plus DNA on her clothes and in her Ford Edge from a water bottle in his. Apartment. He admitted on a jail call to detectives that they hooked up at his place and he rode

1:03in her car briefly. Prosecutors call him a serious community risk. A Cuban national here illegally with a long rap sheet, and his case keeps unfolding as they bill toward. Trial. That's the story for today, Vancouver News Today, driven by AI. I'm Cory with the story.