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Third person dies after machete attack in Perry on October 29

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November 14th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

A third person died this weekend in a brutal machete attack in central Iowa late last month. Seventy-eight-year-old Juan Jimenez of Perry had been in coma for several weeks. He died Saturday of his injuries suffered in a vicious attack on October 29. Twenty-five-year-old Carlos Marlo Hernandez-Ventura is already in custody in the killings of 34-year-old Lourdes Flor De Leake and her daughter, 14-year-old Melany Barraza.

All three of the victims were found in a home that Jimenez was renting to the girl and her mother. Court documents show Hernandez-Ventura used a machete in the attack and the victims all suffered multiple lacerations.

(Radio Iowa)