For many years, Kyleigh Sousa and her mother, Karen Montenegro, would decorate Christmas trees in every room of the family’s home in New Jersey.

The jury was out just 40 minutes before it came back with guilty verdicts against Joseluis Marquez for murdering Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa during a 2010 robbery in the downtown Tempe area as she walked across the street from a police station.

It’s been more than two years since Kyleigh Sousa died after being dragged and run over by a car while walking with a group of friends on the Arizona State University campus, but she still is well remembered.

This week marks the beginning of the trial for Joseluis Marquez who is charged with the May 26, 2010 robbery and murder of Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa in downtown Tempe. Her brazen murder took place across the street from a police station and was the first of three student murders in and around Tempe’s downtown that year.

The trial involving the man authorities say is responsible for the 2010 dragging death of Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa is set for May.

Not only has speed photo enforcement been instrumental in slowing down habitual speeders, it has been instrumental in identifying suspects of crimes and helped lead to their arrests.

Not only has speed photo enforcement been instrumental in slowing down habitual speeders, it has been instrumental in identifying suspects of crimes and helped lead to their arrests.

For the family of a slain Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa, the past year has been one filled with sadness and struggle as they have moved through the grieving process.

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More than 500 tips, a speed photo enforcement ticket, and a witness have led Tempe police to arrest a transient man in the May dragging death of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa.

To help honor the memory of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa, her family has formed a foundation to aid families of crime victims who died tragically or surviving crime victims through a memorial foundation in her name.

This will not be a typical Thanksgiving holiday weekend for the Sousa family.

An artist who is dubbed “New Jersey’s Sculptor” is planning to produce a slightly larger than life-size bronze sculpture of a 21-year-old Arizona State University pre-law student who was dragged to her death nearly six months ago.

This week another child who was sent to Arizona State University to get an education was buried by his parents.

Nearly two weeks after ASU student Zachary Marco was shot and killed walking from the school library, university and Tempe police are urging students to be more aware of their surroundings.

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating or identifying those responsible for a string of at least nine armed robberies in the northwest section of the city committed during the last three months.

“Heartache all day, up all night, non-stop tears, sick to my stomach... only to start all over again the next day. Day in and day out. 7 weeks today. The pain grows worse... the tears don’t stop and the only thoughts in my mind every second of the day are of my daughter.” — Taken from the Facebook page of Karen Montenegro, the mother of Tempe murder victim Kyleigh Sousa.

Police want to find the person who put a driver’s license belonging to the friend of a dragging victim into a U.S. Postal Service mailbox.

Thirty two years ago, I was trying to track down a California drug dealer who was the source of PCP coming into Arizona. All I had was a physical description and a nickname — “Perry” — to go on.