Police freed illegal alien one day before alleged home murder: ‘Blood on their hands’

The Trump administration said Northern Virginia’s “sanctuary politicians” “have blood on their hands” after an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal history was released by police and allegedly killed a man in his home a day later.

A man was found shot to death in his Northern Virginia home Wednesday. The suspected shooter, Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23 — an illegal immigrant from El Salvador residing in the United States — was in custody Tuesday on charges of intentional wounding and brandishing a firearm, but police released him after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the charges.

Police investigated the murder scene Wednesday afternoon and night, according to local media. Following a manhunt, Morales-Ortez was eventually found and arrested. Court records showed Morales-Ortez had been charged with at least seven felonies in Fairfax County at the time of his latest arrest and was suspected of being a member of MS-13.

“Charges were not filed due to insufficient evidence to advance the criminal case,” a spokesperson for the Fairfax County District Attorney’s Office, led by the George Soros-backed Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney, told Fox News Digital. “The victim told police that she had left the country and would not come to court to cooperate with the proceedings, regardless of timing. Unfortunately, without the necessary testimony from the victim, we would not be able to move forward.”

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Marvin Morales-Ortez, who is in the country illegally, was released from Fairfax County police custody on Tuesday, then committed murder the next day. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)

Fairfax County police and Descano’s office said the decision whether to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees ultimately falls within the jurisdiction of the sheriff’s office, led by Stacey Kincaid. Fox News Digital has reached out to the sheriff’s office for an explanation on how it handles ICE detainers and whether or not it cooperates with federal immigration law enforcement.

“The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state and federal laws when determining whether a person is eligible for ADC release. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified whenever a person is booked into the ADC. In this case, ICE was aware of Morales Ortez’s incarceration and chose not to seek a court warrant to ensure he remains in custody,” Fox News said Digital. “As a result, and consistent with our policies and the law, once the court issued an order dismissing his prosecution, Mr. Morales Ortez was released.”

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, according to local Virginia news outlet WJLA-TV, is currently considering Kincaid for a top position in the Virginia State Police.

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In response to the incident, a Homeland Security spokesperson said they “had blood on their hands.”

“This is nothing more than sanctuary politicians attempting to shift blame for their REFUSAL to protect American citizens,” the spokesperson said. “To honor a detainee, authorities do NOT need a court warrant. The Fairfax Sanctuary politicians have blood on their hands. They should have turned this serial criminal illegal alien over to ICE law enforcement – instead they chose to RELEASE him into Virginia’s neighborhoods.”

Steve Descano is the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Fairfax County. (Getty Images)

While Morales-Ortez has been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County since 2020, including assault and first-degree murder, he has only been convicted in one theft case, according to local media and court records, which indicated Morales-Ortez was fined $300 but had not yet paid.

Virginians 4 Safe Communities, a public safety group critical of Descano, criticized the top Soros-backed Northern Virginia county police officer amid news of Morales-Ortez’s alleged murder and the fact that he was released just a day before committing it.

“For Steve Descano’s office, letting violent criminals commit more crimes isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. But he misses so many cases that you can’t always tell where the incompetence ends and the ideology begins,” Sean Kennedy, president of Virginians for Safe Communities, told Fox News Digital. “Having a dangerous offender released and causing more victims is so common in Fairfax that it may have become insensitive. Descano is exploiting that.”

Above are the “worst of the worst” illegal alien criminals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Virginia over the past week. (Department of Homeland Security/Jonathan Wiggs via Getty Images)

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Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in Virginia have almost tripled compared to the previous administration. Last month, Homeland Security (DHS) exposed some of the “worst of the worst” dangerous and violent illegal immigrant offenders captured in just one week.

The undocumented immigrant offenders highlighted by the DHS came from Central America and the Caribbean, including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. During this time, their crimes ranged from drug trafficking to domestic violence, rape, “sexual abuse”, terrorist threats, extortion and much more.