A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Monday and charged with murder for allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend 22 times while she was walking her dog in a Houston park last week, authorities said.
Diamond Alvarez, 16, was lured to the park last Tuesday after receiving a text message from suspect Frank Deleon Jr. asking her to meet him there, the victim’s mother, Anna Machado, said.
Shortly after, Alvarez’s family heard the gunshots from their home and rushed to the nearby green space when their dog, Peanut, came home alone, relatives said.
The family found Alvarez’s body and the mother tried to revive her daughter by performing CPR, but it was too late.
Police say the teenage couple’s relationship ended after Alvarez learned Deleon was cheating on her.
Machado said his daughter and her alleged killer dated “on and off” for about a year.
“My daughter was always crying because of him,” the mother said.
Machado said she visited a makeshift memorial honoring her daughter after learning of the arrest in the case.
“I came up there crying and said, ‘Baby, you have justice. It’s not done yet. It is not finished yet. But at least we know a name,” she said.
Deleon was being held in the Harris County Jail and prosecutors are asking for $250,000 bond.
But Machado wants the suspect held without bail.
“He doesn’t even deserve a high bond. He executed my daughter,” the mother said.
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