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Casey Valley talks to reporters outside Justice Court in Fernley, Nev. on Friday, April 8, 2022, where Troy Driver was ordered to remain jailed without bail on charges accusing him of kidnapping and killing Valley's younger sister, 18-year-old Naomi Irion. Driver was arrested on a kidnapping charge on March 25 after investigators said he abducted her March 12 and later shot her before burying her body in northern Nevada's high desert. .FERNLEY, Nev.
The daughter of U.S. State Department workers, Irion moved there from South Africa last summer to live with her brother. She disappeared after video surveillance in a Walmart parking lot showed aTroy E. Driver, a 41-year-old from nearby Fallon with a violent criminal history,. Driver previously served more than a decade in a California prison.
He went the next day to the Walmart near U.S. Interstate 80 where Irion had gone to wait for a shuttle bus to take her to her job at a Panasonic plant. Signs posted in the parking lot alert shoppers “cameras in use.” While initially critical of the investigation, Valley told reporters outside Justice Court on Friday that finding his sister's body was “some amazing detective work.” He said the family went to the remote gravesite, which “looks like any other part of the Nevada desert.”
He has emphasized from the start Driver is a “human being” who is innocent until proven guilty. He said after the initial arrest for kidnapping he was concerned for Driver's safety if released from jail.
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