09-04-2025
Teenage girl found dead in friend's DeKalb apartment; man charged with murder
Doraville police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl found on the couch in her friend's apartment.
According to a police report, Angelina Vargas-Lagunes was staying at a friend's apartment on Winters Park Drive when another woman who lived at the home found her unresponsive on the couch.
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When she couldn't wake Vargas-Lagunes up, she called 911 on Saturday afternoon. The teenager was pronounced dead a few hours later.
Investigators found two white drug tablets labeled TEVA 5517 and took them into evidence.
Her cause of death has not been released.
Pedro Zalazar-Chilel has since been charged with malice murder, concealing a body, providing alcohol to a minor and other drug charges.
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Investigators have not commented on how Zalazar-Chilel is connected to Vargas-Lagunes' death.
He is currently being held in the DeKalb County Jail.
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