Texas teen who was topic of AMBER alert now suspect in homicide case

Police in Texas anticipate to cost a teenage woman with homicide, simply days after the identical teen was the main focus of an AMBER alert.

Garland Police stated Natalie Navarro, 17, is a suspect within the killing of 21-year-old Arturo Pena of Mesquite.

Authorities are additionally trying to find one other suspect —  21-year-old Yordy Martinez — who stays at giant. The suspect is taken into account armed and harmful.

“The reason why this happened, we’ve yet to totally determine that,” Garland Police Lieutenant Richard Moldonado stated Friday. “We hope to get more when we talk to Natalie to see exactly what was going on — if these persons knew each other, if they had a relationship, if there was a falling out.”

The teen woman and Mr. Martinez are implicated in Mr. Pena’s demise, which was first reported by police Aug. 29.

Officers went to Audubon Park round 10 p.m. that evening after being known as about an unresponsive man in a automobile. Police later noticed the sufferer had an obvious gunshot wound.

Mr. Pena was reported lacking to Dallas police on Aug. 27.

Dallas police additionally issued an alert on the America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response system earlier than daybreak Friday after she hadn’t been seen since Thursday afternoon.

The AMBER alert listed Mr. Martinez as a potential suspect in Ms. Navarro’s disappearance.

The alert was canceled hours later after police stated the woman was picked up by regulation enforcement in Webb County, which sits on the U.S.-Mexico border. Ms. Navarro stays in police custody.

Garland police haven’t said publicly what proof led them to subject arrest warrants for Ms. Navarro or Mr. Martinez.