SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Police identify Saturday’s murder victim on North Cliff Avenue as 37-year-old Jennie Leigh Smith-Solorzano.
Sargent Shaun Olson says her husband, 33-year-old Garrett Solorzano, is accused of stabbing her in the head and neck.
Olson says the coroner estimates that Smith-Solorzano was killed Friday night or early Saturday morning, or about 12 hours before police found the body in the basement of the couple's North Cliff Avenue apartment.
Solorzano went upstairs to talk with neighbors Saturday and they called police after fearing that something may have happen to Jennie.
Olson says investigators found Garrett and a pocketknife at the scene. He says Jennie obviously suffered from head and neck trauma