Why hard-working Bellevue man was killed a mystery

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: The Seattle Times

It was May 21, a Wednesday afternoon, and Ivan Hernandez-Vazquez had just finished class at Interlake High School in Bellevue. He came home, ate lunch, then left around 3 p.m. to walk to a nearby bank.

I'm going to wire money to my grandmother in Mexico, he told his guardian. It won't take long.

The next morning, police found his body behind a million-dollar home in the Seattle neighborhood of View Ridge. He'd been stabbed in the neck.

The recent slaying of Hernandez-Vazquez, 18, a junior at Interlake, has sent shock waves through the high school and the affluent community where he was found.



Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004456315_ivan04m.html

[MadMaddie]

1. I live in an area close to Bellevue....this is unusual ......

[Left coast liberal]

2. Yes, I live near by too. This is very weird. There has to be more to the story.

Yikes.

[DebbieCDC]

3. Is this the story from like last week where they found a body

in an alley in View Ridge? He was just a high school kid? Geesh, I sort of lost track of this story in the last week and just now saw this post.

I live in Jackson Park in NE Seattle, by the way, and just wondering how this kid ended up in View Ridge.

[Howardx]

4. i went to that high school

my folks still live 2 blocks away.

[maxsolomon]

5. View Ridge resident

I live about 4 blocks from where the body was found, but i'm not feeling any "shock waves", Seattle Times.

Poor kid - i'd assumed a drug deal gone awry, but now it sounds like robbery.

[AngryAmish]

6. This used to happen all the time in Sunnydale, CA