Bellevue police: Suspect arrested in woman’s strangling

Published 8:31 pm Tuesday, June 23, 2015

BELLEVUE — Bellevue police say they’ve arrested a suspect in the strangling death of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found in a vacant apartment in February.

The department announced Tuesday that detectives arrested 35-year-old Justin Matthew Gray Bacani on Monday. Authorities say he was identified as a suspect after detectives executed several search warrants related to the investigation.

Detectives said they found signs of a struggle in the apartment, including blood evidence that had been cleaned up.

Bacani was booked into King County Jail, without bail, for investigation of second-degree murder.