Person of interest arrested in killing of 11-year-old Texas girl whose body was left under bed

PASADENA, Texas – A person suspected of sexually assaulting and killing an 11-year-old girl earlier than stashing her body under her bed in her circle of relatives’s suburban Houston rental has been arrested, police mentioned Saturday.

The 18-year-old guy was known as an individual of interest Friday. The Pasadena Police Department mentioned in a observation Saturday that since then, investigators have been ready to procure further proof linking him to the demise of Maria Gonzalez, they usually arrested him in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Police mentioned the 18-year-old might be charged with capital homicide and is looking forward to extradition to Texas.

According to KHOU-TV, Pasadena Police Chief Josh Bruegger mentioned investigators interviewed and picked up DNA from the suspect the day Maria Gonzalez’s body was discovered, however mentioned he wasn’t on their radar on the time.

The Gonzales circle of relatives launched a observation thanking Pasadena and Louisiana police for arresting the suspect.

“May he be burdened with the full weight of the law, for what he has done to my daughter,” the statement said.

Police have said that Maria Gonzalez had been home alone last Saturday morning when someone knocked at the door. The girl texted her father, Carmelo Gonzalez, who had just gone to work. He told KHOU that he told his daughter not to answer the door. Maria Gonzalez said she wouldn’t and would stay in her bed. But she didn’t answer his subsequent calls.

So Carmelo Gonzalez asked his brother and sister-in-law, who live in the same apartment complex, to check on his daughter, police said Tuesday. They found the front door unlocked and things out of place when they went inside. But they did not find her.

When Carmelo Gonzalez returned house, he searched the rental and located his daughter beneath her bed, wrapped in a trash bag and positioned within a laundry basket. Police mentioned the girl were strangled to demise and sexually assaulted.