Teen who raped and murdered girl in 'real life horror show' learns his fate after bombshell trial

An Oregon teen was recovered blameworthy connected each counts aft raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl. 

Daniel R. Gore, present 18, was convicted of raping and strangling sixth-grader Milana Li, 13, in a grove a trees successful May 2022 erstwhile helium was 16 years old. 

A sheet of jurors took little than 90 minutes to convict the teen of first-degree murder, rape and intersexual abuse, according to The Oregonian.   

Gore, who was tried arsenic an big - a rarity successful Oregon - faces beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole and volition beryllium sentenced connected December 2. 

Li and Gore struck up a relationship portion she was attending schoolhouse astatine Conestoga Middle School. At the time, Gore was surviving successful a structure successful a wooded country aft moving distant from home. 

After hours of riding buses up and down Southwest Scholls Ferry Road connected that fateful day, Gore would instrumentality Li backmost to his structure wherever helium raped her and past strangled her for 3 to 5 minutes until she died. 

He past dumped the teen's assemblage into a shallow creek and tried to conceal it with a waterproof tarp and logs. Her covering was scattered passim adjacent bushes. 

Gore had a passionateness for gory euphony by rapper 7XVN and serial killers, but Senior Deputy District Attorney, John Gerhard, said this wasn't what prompted the teen to make a real-life fearfulness show. 

'It was his prime to instrumentality a susceptible miss who trusted him and followed him into the wood and enactment retired his fantasy,' the lawyer told the jury. 

After the killing, Gore went implicit to a friend's location astatine the Andover Park Apartments and began texting respective radical that helium and Li had separated astatine a autobus halt adjacent Southeast 125th Avenue. 

However, surveillance footage showed different and the brace were seen making their mode to Gore's encampment, according to The Oregonian. 

He besides called his woman astatine the time, Eva Camara, and claimed Li had tried to buss him and helium had 'taken attraction of it'.

Camara had texted her friend: 'I hatred knowing the truth.' 

Gore besides texted Li's phone, which helium had with him astatine his friend's, to fortify his alibi, but her broadside ne'er responded, according to the section outlet. 

He besides began telling friends: 'I got hella drunk and she [expletive] dipped and I forgot she had my nic [vape] successful her bag. Now she ain’t responding.' 

However, a person helium went to aft the sidesplitting testified that Gore did not look to beryllium intoxicated and had been quieter than usual. 

Li's parent reported the miss missing the greeting aft the slaying erstwhile she noticed the miss wasn't location aft returning from her nighttime shift. 

Beaverton Police recovered Gore astatine the Murrayhill Library, wherever helium escaped retired the exigency exit. He was apprehended 20 minutes aboriginal aft a chase. 

When constabulary searched his phone, they had recovered searches for intersexual unit and the symbols that correspond 7XVN craved into a histrion adjacent his tent, according to The Oregonian. 

He had besides written successful his diary that helium felt 'like Dexter,' a fictional serial killer. 

His DNA was besides recovered wrong Li's body, but his defence squad argued it was from a consensual encounter. 

She besides had an unidentified man's DNA connected her apparel and beneath her fingernails, but Gore's DNA was not recovered nether her nails.  

Her DNA was not recovered connected him. 

'How could helium perchance person raped and murdered her erstwhile there’s not a compartment of DNA grounds connected his person?' Gore's Attorney, J. Mark Lawrence, questioned the jury. 

Prosecutors speculated Gore's DNA wasn't nether her fingernails due to the fact that she was lying look down erstwhile she was strangled. 

'The past fewer minutes of Milana Li’s beingness were excruciating. She fought, but it was a terrifying end,' authoritative Andy Pulver said, according to The Oregonian. 

When the teenager, who did not testify, received his blameworthy verdict, helium showed nary emotion, according to the outlet. 

His parent was seen holding hands with Li's parent and the pb detective cried, according to The Oregonian. 

Prior to the murder, Gore had already racked up a juvenile grounds and had pending charges for second-degree arson, transgression mischief, and theft erstwhile helium was arrested successful May 2022. 

He was released backmost to his parents, escaping having to bash clip successful a juvenile detention center, according to KGW. 

He soon ran distant from location and his begetter notified the juvenile department, but thing was done.