The man accused of killing 19-year-old Da’Cara Thompson last month was ordered held without bond after his first court appearance on Monday in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, 35, was charged in Thompson’s murder on Friday after prosecutors accused him of driving Thompson to his home in Bowie, killing her in the bedroom and then leaving her body in a grassy area near Route 50 in Anne Arundel County.

Investigators are still trying to put together the last hours of Thompson’s life. According to court documents, surveillance video shows her park her SUV and walk into a parking lot near a Family Dollar store in Langley Park. She spoke to the driver of another vehicle and then got into the vehicle’s front passenger seat around 3 a.m.

Court records allege that Hernande

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