By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Four kids have lost their mother just three days after they reported her missing. 32-year-old Edith Calderon was found murdered, her body dumped in the desert.
The mother was last seen alive Saturday night and Metro has her ex-boyfriend, 28-year-old Gonzalo Tejada-Rivas in custody for the crime. He's charged with kidnapping and murder.
Read the Clark County Homicide Report
Calderon was last seen alive at a Burger King. Her car was found not even a block away.
“I feel sad because the children have no more mom,” said neighbor Edward Hernandez-Rodriguez
He remembers Calderon and her four children. He says they lived in his neighborhood for just a short while, but he'll miss the joy they brought with them.
“They were walking around. The little kid, he was like always playing around here with my scooter and everything,” he said.
Calderon lived in the shadow of the Stratosphere in an apartment complex. All of her neighbors remember her as a very hard worker. One Saturday, she left her apartment. All four of her children were inside waiting for their mother to come home. Sadly she never made it.”
Calderon's trail went cold after she left the Burger King on Maryland Parkway on Saturday. She never showed up to work at a fast food restaurant at the MGM Grand and never returned home to see her kids.
Martina Herrera lives next door and says Tejada-Rivas never made his presence known here.
“I saw the boyfriend's picture on the news but I never saw him around here, never,” she said.
Herrera says she feels for those children who will grow up without their mother, as this community realizes the scope of this tragedy.
Police declined to be interviewed and released very few details about why they believe Tejado-Rivas killed her. An autopsy will be performed Thursday to determine an exact cause of death.
Calderon's mother has come to town to tend to the children and neighbors say they're expected to go back with her to Houston.
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