Sarai Llanos Gomez moved to Atlanta for a waitressing job, but was asked to be a sex worker instead. After she refused, she was found dead, her family says.
Sarai Llanos Gomez was a young Ecuadorian woman who came to America last year seeking a better life. According to her mother, the year-old single mother of two moved to the Atlanta area in hopes of finding a waitressing job so she could send money back to her family.
But those dreams ended in tragedy last month when her body was found in a wooded area in Hall County, Ga. Authorities say she'd been murdered. Gomez's body was found on Paradise Point Road on June 20, ," the sheriff's office said in a statement on Tuesday. Gomez was a victim of murder; however, there was nothing at the scene that immediately pointed to her identity. The ongoing investigation, including the release of a composite GBI sketch of the victim, led to her positive identification this week.
Authorities say that they're looking for a motive in the killing β but those who knew her believe that she may have been killed after turning down work as a sex worker. According to Telemundo , Gomez had moved from Ecuador to Chicago in and lived with family members while working at various restaurants. She had recently moved to Atlanta after receiving a job offer to work as a waitress in a hotel.
In an interview with 11 Alive , Luis Veintimilla with the Ecuadorian Consulate said that the move to Atlanta might have cost Gomez her life. She had moved here to make more money as a waitress. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? But Veintimilla tells the station that the job was not what she was promised β but was instead a job as a sex worker.
