OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — Members of Janice Marie Zengotita-Torres' family broke their silence and spoke to the media Friday hours before they laid their loved one to rest.
"We are deeply thankful for all the people and communities that have grieved with us here in Florida and in Puerto Rico," Zengotita-Torres's family said.
The 42-year-old was killed Jan. 8 in a murder-for-hire plot, investigators said. The suspects realized they had kidnapped the wrong woman, but killed her anyway, investigators said.
According to investigators, Ishnar Lopez-Ramos, 35, allegedly hired Glorianmarie Quinones-Montes, 22, and Alexis Ramos-Rivera, 22, to kill a woman in a relationship with a man Lopez-Ramos loved.
Zengotita-Torres' body was found in Ormond Beach.
All three suspects gave full confessions and face charges of premeditated first-degree murder, investigators with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said.
"We ask authorities that the appropriate penalties and sentences be given to those responsible for the death of Janice, according to the acts committed," Zengotita-Torres's family said.
Watch the family speak about Torres below:
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