The Derrick Rose gang rape case took yet another serious turn this morning. The former Chicago Bulls and current New York Knicks point guard has maintained his innocence throughout this process. On Friday, it came out that Rose received text messages from the alleged victim telling the 2011 NBA MVP that he is the reason she “wakes up horny.”
Derrick Rose made those revelations as a means to convey that he assumed he had been given stated sexual content.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Police Department Detective assigned to the Derrick Rose case was found dead from a gunshot wound. It is unclear right now whether the detective’s death was a suicide or a homicide, and the police are currently investigating.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s department on Wednesday identified her as 44-year-old Nadine Hernandez.
LAPD sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the case confirmed that Hernandez was one of two detectives assigned to the Rose case and that she was a detective in the department’s Robbery-Homicide Division Special Assault Section. She frequently was involved in high-profile sex crime cases, authorities said.
Whittier police received a call at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday reporting an attempted suicide in the 8400 block of Via Sierra Ramal, Whittier Lt. Steve Dean said.
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