Mercedes Antoinette Ashley Ortiz, 31, was found dead in her Brookstone Trace home on Pebblebrook Drive in Milford in the early morning hours of June 5, 2024, along with 3-year-old Aloni Truong. Public reports described both deaths as the result of gun violence. The discovery followed an earlier medical call around 4:45 a.m. about a man bleeding from his head on South DuPont Boulevard; that man, transported with non-life-threatening injuries, was later connected to the scene at the Pebblebrook Drive residence.

Police arrested 31-year-old Davis Truong of Milford, identified in reports as Aloni’s father, and secured an arrest warrant for him the evening of June 5, 2024. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, held on $2.2 million cash-only bail, and scheduled for a preliminary hearing on June 13, 2024. Court filings reportedly described a possible murder-suicide pact as a motive, a characterization Mercedes’ mother, Crystal Ortiz-Simpson, publicly rejected and said did not fit her understanding of the deaths.

Mercdes was born in Brooklyn in 1992 and was remembered in obituary information as a loving mother and daughter. Does anyone in the Milford area have information about Mercedes, Aloni, or the Brookstone Trace neighborhood the morning of June 5?