The brand new twenty eight-year-old Virginia policeman which slain about three friends of a beneficial Riverside teen had posed online because a teenager in order to “groom” the brand new 15-year-dated girl, the fresh Riverside Police Agency told you Wednesday.

Austin Lee Edwards illustrated themselves just like the a good 17-year-old while communication on the web for the woman, playing with “grooming” actions, that will are systems like requesting or providing sexually specific images, taking gift suggestions and offering comments, Riverside Cops Captain Larry Gonzalez said within a news conference.