Police have arrested a Latino for killing a US Airways flight attendant in his Mexico City hotel room and stealing his belongings and the safe deposit box

Authorities said that Jose Manuel Ramirez beat flight attendant Nick Aaronson, 27, and then strangled him with a belt. Chief prosecutor Miguel Mancera said that Ramirez and Aaronson arrived at the downtown Hilton and went to the room together. Mancera said the attack and theft happened shortly after that, but added that he did not know how much money was stolen and what was in the safe box. Authorities found Aaronson when they were called to his room in the Hilton Hotel where he had been staying with a number of other US Airways staff during a layover in Mexico City. Aaronson's body was found lying naked, face down on the bed, strangled to death with his own belt with his hands tied behind his back. The body had also clearly been struck several times. His luggage was said to be scattered around the room.