Katherine Martinez repeatedly rebuffed Emilio Calderon's
romantic advances - even after he started giving her rides to work and class
and offered to buy her a car, her family says.
Calderon, 29, admitted to becoming enraged when he visited
Martinez Sunday at her apartment in Terrytown, Louisiana.
Police say he stabbed her three times and then strangled her
to death. Her unborn baby died, as well.
Martinez's family says he should have had no expectation
that the baby was his - she never liked him as anything more than a friend.
'They never had sex. They didn't kiss. They never even held
hands,' Osmer Batrez, Martinez's friend, told the newspaper.
'They did not have an intimate relationship.'
Despite Martinez's insistence that she and Calderon remain
'just friends,' he became more persistent. Eventually, he started showing up at
Blue Cliff College, where she took classes, and the restaurant where she worked
as a waitress.
Martinez started blocking him on her social media accounts.
Calderon responded by creating fake usernames to trick Martinez into
'friending' him so he could keep tabs on her, her family told the
Times-Picayune.
Despite Calderon's persistence, he never exhibited violence
or aggressiveness, they say.
When Martinez got a serious boyfriend, Calderon became even
more interested in her, Martinez's mother Orla Martinez said.
At some point, after learning she was pregnant with her
boyfriend's child, Calderon flew into a rage and attacked her, police say.
'We want the public to know that just because he pursued
her, doesn't mean he was entitled to her,' Martinez's friend Onix Palacios told
the Times-Picayne.
'She was a good daughter, a good sister, a good friend. She
didn't deserve this coward taking her life when she had dreams and goals to be
a wonderful mother.'
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