{"id":53477,"date":"2025-11-14T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:09:11","slug":"long-beach-man-killed-his-girlfriend-drove-to-mexico-with-her-body-in-the-car-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53477\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach man killed his girlfriend, drove to Mexico with her body in the car, police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a 44-year-old Long Beach man is in custody after he killed his girlfriend, then drove to Mexico, where he turned himself in.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach police said Erik Alcantar was in a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, 45-year-old Aracely Romero, of Long Beach, on Saturday while they were both inside a vehicle traveling in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>During the dispute, he killed her, police allege.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Alcantar then drove to Tijuana, Mexico, where he turned himself in to Mexican authorities with Romero\u2019s body still in the vehicle. As of Friday, he remained in custody in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Romero and Alcantar had five children ranging from age 16 to 26, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/rvtthk-unexpected-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> started by her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one moment, [the children] lost both of their parents,\u201d they wrote on the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>They described Romero as \u201cthe light of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romero \u201chad the purest heart, always finding ways to make people smile, always putting others before herself,\u201d her family wrote. \u201cTo know her was to feel warmth, love, and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of midday Friday, the GoFundMe had raised more than $4,600 towards its $22,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office, which will consider what charges to file against Alcantar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 44-year-old Long Beach man is in custody after he killed his girlfriend, then drove to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-53477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}