An emotional funeral was held Wednesday for Valerie Reyes, the 24-year-old woman whose corpse was found stuffed inside a suitcase dumped on the side of a quiet road in suburban Connecticut.
Dozens of friends and relatives were seen hugging and wiping away tears outside of St Gabriel's Church in New Rochelle, New York.
Many of the attendees wore white sweatshirts bearing a photo of Reyes and the words: 'In Loving Memory of our beautiful soul Valerie. You captured so many hearts'.
'She was just silly and just a free soul, beautiful soul. She's going to be missed,' Reyes' cousin Desiree Rodriguez said as she made her way into the church on Wednesday.
'We're devastated, but we're happy that the person was caught so she gets to go in peace. It kind of brings us a little more peace, too, to let her go.'
After the hour-long memorial service, loved ones held white balloons as a Reyes was buried in a green casket adorned with yellow and white flowers at a cemetery in nearby Rye, New York.
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An emotional funeral was held Wednesday for Valerie Reyes, the 24-year-old woman whose corpse was found stuffed inside a suitcase dumped on the side of a quiet road in suburban Connecticut. Loved ones are seen huddled around her casket at a cemetery in Rye, New York
Friends and family gathered at St Gabriel's Church in New Rochelle, New York, for the memorial service on Wednesday, two weeks after Reyes went missing and one week after her body was found on the side of a road in Greenwich, Connecticut
Many of the mourners were wearing white hooded sweatshirts with Reyes' photo and the words: 'In Loving Memory of our beautiful soul Valerie. You captured so many hearts'
Pallbearers carry Reyes' emerald casket into St Gabriel's Church ahead of the funeral mass
A black hearse is seen in front of the church as loved ones file in for the memorial service
Reyes' was laid to rest at Greenwood Union Cemetery in Rye, New York, after the funeral
Loved ones held white balloons as Reyes' casket adorned with yellow and white flowers was lowered into the ground
Reyes was reported missing on January 30 when she failed to turn up for work, and her body was found one week later on February 5. Her ex-boyfriend Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas was arrested and charged in connection with her death on Monday, two days before the funeral
Reyes' funeral came two days after her ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, was arrested and charged with kidnapping resulting in death. The charge carries the possibility of the death penalty.
Investigators say Rojas has denied killing Reyes and claims that she died after falling and hitting her head while the pair were having sex.
He allegedly admitted to binding her hands and feet, putting packing tape over her mouth, forcing her body into a case and abandoning it on the side of a road in Greenwich, Connecticut.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials revealed in a statement on Wednesday that Rojas is a citizen of Portugal who has been in the US illegally for more than a year.
He reportedly entered the US on May 8, 2017, through the Visa Waiver Program and was required to leave by August 5, 2017.
ICE filed a detainer for Rojas on Wednesday, meaning he will be deported immediately after his criminal case is complete and any sentence is served.
Susanne Brody, a lawyer for Da Silva, declined to comment Wednesday.
The Visa Waiver Program allows citizens from 38 countries to travel to the US for tourism or business for up to 90 days without a visa.
Of the nearly 22.5 million people who entered the US under the program and were supposed to leave in the 2017 fiscal year, about 131,000 remained in the country illegally, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Investigators say Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, 24, has denied killing Reyes and claims that she died after falling and hitting her head while the pair were having sex. The pair are pictured together in a photo he posted to Instagram last year
Rojas allegedly admitted to binding Reyes' hands and feet, placing tape over her mouth and putting her body in a suitcase, which he dumped by the side of a road in Connecticut
The reddish-orange suitcase containing Reyes' body was discovered by highway workers in Greenwich around 8.15am Tuesday, one week after the 24-year-old was last seen on January 29
Police have said that Reyes (left) reportedly broke up with Rojas (right) just days before she went missing, though the victim's mother says they actually stopped dating a year ago
Rojas, who was staying in Queens, was taken into custody on Monday after police say he tried to use Reyes' bank card to withdraw $1,000 from an ATM.
The arrest followed the police investigation of multiple crime scenes, reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, and interviews multiple potential witnesses, the Greenwich Police Department said in a press release on Tuesday.
'New Rochelle Police Detectives accompanied by Greenwich Police Detectives, arrested a suspect in New York who had fraudulently used the ATM card of homicide victim Valerie Reyes,' the statement said.
'The arrested individual is also believed to be involved in the death of Valerie.
'We are confident that the pursuit of justice for Valerie will be successful and we continue to work with the family to provide closure to this tragedy.'
Reyes is seen in a picture issued by the NYPD while officers were searching for her after she was reported missing on January 30
Reyes was reported missing on January 30 when she failed to turn up for work, before her body was found on February 5.
Her body had reportedly been dumped by Rojas a week before she went missing, though her mother told police that the pair hadn't been seeing each other for a year, according to the New York Post.
A source told CBS that Reyes was 'killed at her residence'.
The victim predicted her murder, telling her mother, Norma Sanchez, on the phone that she feared she'd be killed on January 28, a day before she disappeared.
'She was very scared, very frightened,' Sanchez told The Journal News.
'She didn't mention anything or no one specific. She just said, 'I'm scared. I'm paranoid, mommy. I'm getting anxiety attacks, She was having a hard time talking.'
Sanchez says she desperately tried to pry for more information, but her daughter refused to specify why she felt that way.
Reyes had reportedly dumped her boyfriend Rojas a week before she went missing
In a haunting message sent to her mother the day before she vanished, Reyes said she feared someone was about to kill her
A vigil was held by family and friends last Thursday to mourn the loss of Reyes, whom many have described as a 'sweetheart'
Reyes, a Barnes & Noble store clerk, had broken up with her boyfriend five days earlier, according to Sanchez.
'I asked her why do you feel this way? Was there someone at your house?' Reyes' mother said.
She asked about her daughter's ex-boyfriend but still Reyes told her mother 'no, it wasn't him'.
Reyes did however reveal that she didn't feel safe alone in her apartment, and expressed her concern at the murders of young women in the state.
'I'm worried someone is going to murder me,' Reyes then allegedly blurted out.
Her body was discovered six days later in a red suitcase on the side of a road in a wooded area of wealthy neighborhood Greenwich, Connecticut. It's 10 miles away from the New York border of her Westchester County home.
The official cause of Reyes' death has not been confirmed as the autopsy is pending.
Police said tips have been pouring in with leads in her horrific and sudden slaying.
Police said previously that Reyes did not die at the location where she was found, but they did not know where she was killed.
According to The Journal, Reyes had taken her iPad, iPhone, clothes and bed sheets with her when she disappeared.
During a press conference Tuesday Greenwich Police Capt Robert Berry said authorities arrested Rojas after he tried to use Reyes' ATM card in New York City
The suitcase with Reyes' body had been dumped in a wooded area (above) about 15 feet from Glenville Road in Greenwich, Connecticut
Glenville Road runs through a quiet and somewhat isolated area of Glenville, a wealthy suburb of Greenwich with a population of just over 2,200 people
The Greenwich Police Department shared this statement on Tuesday on Rojas' arrest
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