An migrant from Ecuador who entered the US illegally is accused of suffocating a 21-year-old Syracuse woman on her birthday and then burying her body in a shallow grave in an upstate New York park, authorities said.
Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, is charged with killing Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza, a fellow Ecuadorian, on June 18 after arranging to meet the victim for her birthday at his Airbnb, The Post-Standard reported.
He was allegedly captured on surveillance cameras carrying Toaquiza’s lifeless on his back — with her arms and legs wrapped around him — out of the property roughly three hours after she arrived at the rental.
Chacaguasay-Ilbis then buried Toaquiza’s body in the park opposite his Airbnb before high-tailing it back to his residence in Spring Valley in Rockland County, cops said.
Toaquiza’s remains weren’t discovered until Saturday after her family had reported her missing.
The accused killer — who is believed to have attended attended elementary school with Toaquiza in Ecuador — was slapped with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse charges after turning himself into cops late Tuesday.
Chacaguasay-Ilbis was picked up by US Border Patrol agents in January 2023 after illegally crossing the border in El Paso, Texas, a Homeland Security source told The Post.
Because there wasn’t enough space to hold him, he was released into the US with a tracking device.
The Post has reached out to Syracuse cops but didn’t hear back immediately.
