Tiffany Valdez still vividly recalls hearing what sounded like gunfire before learning her beloved brother had been killed.In the early hours of June 7, 2018, Emilio Valdez left his mother's home and entered a Pontiac Grand Prix parked outside a neighbor's house.Moments later, police said he was shot inside the vehicle.
Investigators later determined the 20-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and the back of the head.The episode stated that Emilio was still alive when he was thrown into Osmun Lake.GRIEVING MOMS DIG WITH ‘BARE HANDS’ TO UNEARTH THE DARK TRUTH BEHIND THEIR MISSING AND MURDERED CHILDRENEmilio Valdez, a Pontiac, Michigan resident, was murdered on June 7, 2018.He was 20 years old.
(ID)Valdez and her family appeared in Investigation Discovery's true crime series, "Bodies in the Water," which examines homicide investigations in which waterways became crime scenes.Each episode explores how investigators used forensic evidence to bring killers to justice."I heard the gunshots," Valdez told Fox News Digital.
"I ran outside, and the car I had just watched him get into was speeding away with music playing loudly.When I last spoke to him, it was nighttime.
He called me to open the door because he didn't have his key.He was coming home after hanging out with friends.
He was going back out to spend time with friends."Tiffany Valdez told Fox News Digital she heard gunshots ring out as the car carrying her brother, Emilio Valdez, sped away with music blaring from the speakers.(ID)"We had been trying to get ahold of him all night and all morning," she recalled.
"We learned [on social media] that a body had been found in Osmun Lake.We didn't want to believe it was him.
But then my sister and I had to identify his body."WATCH: DYLAN ROUNDS' MOTHER EXPLAINS HOW MISSING SON'S CELLPHONE HELPED BREAK CASE AND LED TO SQUATTER'S ARRESTEmilio grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, in a large, close-knit family.A star athlete, he was known for his easygoing nature...