Woman gruesomely murdered after rejecting amorous request from her crush

A young woman has met a horrific end after she told a US Army reserve who had a crush on her that she only wanted to be friends.

Prosecutors have said Jose Luis Lopez Xique, 27, shot Kayli Grace Arseth, 22, in a bloody attack at her Minnesota home on June 16 after they met online.

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed one count of second-degree intentional murd£r against Lopez Xique on Monday, July 7.

The office said messages between the suspect and victim showed that Lopez Xique was “asking for a romantic relationship” despite “Arseth making clear that she was only interested in friendship.”

During the investigation, police uncovered a grisly bag of discarded items at the crime scene in Arseth’s home located in Richfield, southern Minneapolis. It included ammunition, an empty box of gauze, disposable gloves, a pair of shoes, a hat, wipes, masking tape, and rubber gloves.

An attorney for Lopez Xique said he is enlisted in the US Army Reserve, and is a US citizen who has lived in Shakopee, on the outskirts of Minnesota, most of his life.
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Court documents detail Arseth’s final movements.

She finished work at Fraser School, a pre-school where she worked as a behavioral technician for autistic children, just after 4.20pm.

When she returned to her apartment nearby on Penn Avenue, she was horrified to find Lopez Xique lying in wait. He had broken in, according to court documents.

A neighbor told police he heard Arseth scream “how could you do this to me?” as the two argued.

The next day, police discovered Arseth’s body in the apartment amid a “gruesome scene”. She had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Richfield Police said Arseth met the alleged k!ller online, and that he would purchase goods for her on shopping trips, but they did not have a romantic or sexual relationship.

The department said Snapchat messages showed Arseth messaged Lopez Xique while she was at work asking him for help with her motorcycle on the day she died.

But later that afternoon, she added: “I don’t have enough mental capacity for any type of relationship right now.”

Lopez Xique replied telling her to “have fun” that evening.

Arseth was a graduate of Wayzata High School, where she was on the swim team and track and field team.

Her family said she was hoping to study developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota.

“Kayli made a positive difference in many people’s lives and will be deeply missed,” her obituary reads.

“She always told people, ‘well, you’re stuck with me.’ The irony is that she is now stuck in our hearts forever.”

“This was a terrible instance of extreme, targeted violence that took Kayli from her loved ones,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.

“My thoughts are with her family during this extraordinarily difficult period. Our office will prosecute Mr. Lopez Xique to protect our community and hold him accountable for his actions.”

Woman gruesomely murdered after rejecting amorous request from her crush

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40 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Netanyahu, Trump meet

DEIR AL-BALAH: At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Wednesday, as international mediators raced to complete a ceasefire deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a second meeting in two days with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday evening. Trump has been pushing for a ceasefire that might lead to an end to the 21-month war in Gaza. Israel and Hamas are considering a new US-backed ceasefire proposal that would pause the war, free Israeli hostages and send much-needed aid into Gaza.

Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said the dead included included 17 women and 10 children. It said one strike killed 10 people from the same family, including three children.

The Israeli military did not comment on specific strikes, but said it had struck more than 100 targets across Gaza over the past day, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, missile launchers and tunnels. Israel accuses Hamas of hiding weapons and fighters among civilians.

Struggle to secure food and water

Many Palestinians are watching the ceasefire negotiations with trepidation, desperate for an end to the war.

In the sprawling coastal Muwasi area, where many live in ad-hoc tents after being displaced from their homes, Abeer Al-Najjar said she had struggled during the constant bombardments to secure sufficient food and water for her family. “I pray to God that there would be a pause, and not just a pause where they would lie to us with a month or two, then start doing what they’re doing to us again. We want a full ceasefire.”

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Her husband, Ali Al-Najjar, said life has been especially tough in the summer, with no access to drinking water in a crowded tent in the Middle Eastern heat. “We hope this would be the end of our suffering and we can rebuild our country again,” he said, before running through a crowd with two buckets to fill them from a water truck.

People chased the vehicle as it drove away to another location.

Amani Abu-Omar said the water truck comes every four days, not enough for her dehydrated children. She complained of skin rashes in the summer heat. She said she was desperate for a ceasefire but fears she would be let down again. “We had expected ceasefires on many occasions, but it was for nothing,” she said.

The war started after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. Most of the hostages have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The UN and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.

Netanyahu and Trump meet again

Netanyahu told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday that he and Trump see “eye to eye” on the need to destroy Hamas. He added that the cooperation and coordination between Israel and the US is currently the best it has ever been during Israel’s 77-year-history.

Later this week, Trump’s Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to head to the Qatari capital of Doha to continue indirect negotiations with Hamas on the ceasefire proposal.

Witkoff said late Tuesday that three key areas of disagreement had been resolved, but that one key issue still remained. He did not elaborate.

After the second meeting, Netanyahu said he and Trump also discussed the “great victory” over Iran from Israeli and American strikes during the 12-day war that ended two weeks ago.

“Opportunities have been opened here for expanding the circle of peace, for expanding the Abraham Accords,” said Netanyahu, referring to normalization agreements between Israel and multiple Arab nations that were brokered by Trump in his first term. Washington has been pushing for normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

40 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Netanyahu, Trump meet

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