Diana Enamorado Perdomo was found deceased by police responding to a report of a disturbance at a Connecticut residence on Friday, March 13
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- Diana Enamorado Perdomo was found deceased by police responding to a report of a disturbance at a Connecticut residence on Friday, March 13
- Police also found the body of Gregorio Calihua-Mantiel, who they determined killed Perdomo before he died by suicide, according to the New Haven Register
- Perdomo’s family is pleading for financial assistance to repatriate her body back to her native Honduras
A Connecticut woman was reportedly beaten to death by her partner who then killed himself before police arrived.
Diana Enamorado Perdomo, 44, was found deceased in a Hebron, Conn., residence last week, the Connecticut State Police said in a statement.
Officers responding to a report of a disturbance around 3 a.m. on Friday, March 13, found her inside the residence after they made a forced entry, per the statement.
They also found 44-year-old Gregorio Calihua-Mantiel deceased inside the residence.
Police are investigating Perdomo's death as homicide, and Calihua-Mantiel's death as suicide, according to the statement. It wasn't immediately clear from the police statement who killed Perdomo; however, the New Haven Register reported police have determined the incident to be a murder-suicide.
The medical examiner's office confirms to PEOPLE that Perdomo died from "blunt force trauma of head."
In a GoFundMe set up to assist Perdomo's family, her niece said the mother of three was killed in an act of "unimaginable cruelty" by her partner.
The family claims Perdomo, a Honduran national, was beaten to death with a bat, according to Honduran news outlets HCH TV and Tu Nota.
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Perdomo's three daughters, who are in Honduras, are now pleading with authorities to help repatriate her body.
“We want to be able to bring her back to her country of origin so we can hold a wake and give her a Christian burial," one of them told HCH TV.
"She left almost three years ago with the idea of having a better life and returning in five years,” the daughter said.
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In the online fundraiser, Perdomo's niece, identified only as Rubi, said Perdomo "was an incredible mother, a loving grandmother, and a woman who taught me the meaning of hard work, kindness, and what it means to be a good human being."
The New Haven Register reported, citing the medical examiner, that Calihua-Mantiel died from ligature compression of his neck.
The medical examiner's office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for a copy of the autopsy.
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