A suspect is being extradited to Texas from Louisiana after being accused of strangling and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her family’s apartment in the Houston area earlier this month.
Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, 18, was arrested Saturday in Shreveport, Louisiana and charged with capital murder after the body of Maria Gonzalez was found underneath her bed on Aug. 12.Pasadena Police Department Chief Josh Bruegger said the victim’s father, Carmelo Gonzalez, was at work when he got a text from his daughter that morning saying someone was knocking on the door.
According to the Associated Press, it wasn’t until Gonzalez returned home from work that he found his daughter wrapped in a trash bag and placed inside a laundry basket under her bed. Investigators initially had no suspects but were able to identify Garcia-Rodriguez as a person of interest nearly a week after Gonzalez was found dead.reported that Garcia-Rodriguez lived in an apartment just a few steps away from Gonzalez.
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