Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a detainer for the 22-year-old man charged with killing a Muslim teenage girl in northern Virginia this weekend.
Police in Fairfax, Va., arrested Darwin Martinez Torres, an El Salvadoran national, on Sunday.
In what police said was an act of road rage, Torres allegedly struck 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in the head with a baseball bat, dragged her body to his car and assaulted her a second time before dumping her body in a pond next to his apartment.
Police are not investigating Hassanen’s death as a hate crime.
ICE issued a detainer request Monday.
“On June 19, ICE lodged a detainer on Darwin Martinez Torres, a citizen and national of El Salvador, with the Adult Detention Center in Fairfax, Virginia,” an ICE spokesperson said.
“ICE lodges detainers on aliens who have been arrested on local criminal charges when the agency has probable cause to believe an alien is removable from the United States. Mr. Martinez Torres has no prior encounters with ICE.”
Hassanen and a group of Muslim teenagers, who were up late observing Ramadan, were returning to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling after going to an area fast-food restaurant.
The group was walking and biking when Torres approached the group at around 3:40 a.m. Sunday and got into an argument with a teenager on a bike.
The 22-year-old construction worker then drove his car over the curb and chased the group, which is when he caught up with Hassanen.
