18-year-old guilty of raping and murdering missing 13-year-old girl

BEAVERTON, ore. (KPTV/Gray News) – An 18-year-old man was found guilty of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl who was reported missing in 2022.

Daniel Gore was found guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse charges.

13-year-old Milana Li on May 10, 2022 Found dead in a small stream in Westside Linear Park After he was reported missing by his mother the day before.

Milana’s friends and her mother went looking for her in a wooded area she was known to visit and found her clothes and shoes there.

Police searched the area and found Li’s body half submerged under a heavy blanket in a stream.

Packing strips tied to a blanket were found in Gore’s tent near Progress Ridge. DNA evidence also linked Gore.

Gore was identified as a person of interest and fled after police tried to speak to him in a library two days after Milana’s body was found.

He was later arrested.

Police learned that Gore called his then-girlfriend after the murder and told her something bad had happened but that he was “dealing with it.”

The Washington District Attorney’s Office confirmed in a press release after the hearing that Milana was raped and murdered by Gore.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Pulver reportedly told the jury that Gore was “a wolf in sheep’s clothing who lulled Milana into a false sense of security before brutally raping and murdering her in a wooded area in Beaverton, near where the defendant lived.” tent.”

Prosecutors used security camera footage and cellphone tracking data to prove Milana was last seen alive with Gore around 7:45 p.m. on the night of the murder.

Gore, who was 16 years old at the time of the murder, He was tried as an adult after a Washington County judge’s rulingThe one who decided that Gore was mature enough to understand the crime he was accused of.

The sentencing hearing will be held on Monday.

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