On the very day Ashan­ti Ri­ley will be laid to rest, a San Juan man is ex­pect­ed to face the court charged with her mur­der Mon­day.

Guardian Me­dia con­firmed homi­cide of­fi­cers charged Lu­ciano Quash, 32, yes­ter­day, af­ter al­most two weeks of in­ves­ti­ga­tions fol­low­ing the 18-year old’s death and dis­ap­pear­ance.

Quash, a PH dri­ver, had been in po­lice cus­tody for al­most two weeks.

Ri­ley went miss­ing on No­vem­ber 29 af­ter she took a PH taxi on Sun­shine Street, San Juan, around the cor­ner from her fam­i­ly home.

She was on her way to her grand­moth­er’s birth­day par­ty, but nev­er made it.

Her nude body was found on De­cem­ber 4 at a wa­ter­course in La Canoa, San­ta Cruz.

An au­top­sy done last Wednes­day con­firmed that the teenag­er death had been caused by sharp force in­juries to the chest and low­er ab­domen as well as blunt force trau­ma to the back of the chest.

These in­juries con­firmed she had been beat­en and stabbed.

Po­lice, how­ev­er, be­lieve that the ac­cused did not act alone, and are still seek­ing oth­er sus­pects in re­la­tion to her mur­der.