A dying US woman dragged herself to the side of a rural street and used her final words to help identify her killers, California police say.
Lizette Andrea Cuesta, 19, was found bloody and suffering from life-threatening stab wounds and other injuries on the side of rural Tesla Road in the city of Livermore about 2am on Monday.
She was spotted by people in a passing vehicle who called police. Cuesta was airlifted to a hospital, where she spoke with investigators before she died, Sheriff's Seargent Ray Kelly said.
Lizette Cuesta crawled 100m to a road so she could be spotted.
"This victim really, really tried to survive. She fought," said Kelly. "The last thing we believe she was able to do was point us in the direction of the people that killed her, and that's pretty remarkable."
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Authorities used the information the victim provided to arrest Daniel Gross, 19, and Melissa Leonardo, 25, both of Modesto, on suspicion of murder, officials said.
Lizette Cuesta's final act was to fight to ID her killers.
One of the men who found the dying woman, Richard Loadholt, told KCRA-TV in Sacramento that he prayed with her and talked to her to keep her conscious as long as he could.
"I hope it'll be encouraging to their family that their daughter did have the spirit to fight," he said.
Cuesta had been dumped in Livermore and crawled 100 metres to the road where she was found, Bay Area TV station KTVU reported.
Daniel Gross, 19, and Melissa Leonardo, 25, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
- Los Angeles Times
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