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HOUSTON – Two days after The authorities managed to arrest the man accused of strangling and raping an 11-year-old girl on the premises of an apartment complex in the city of Pasadena, new details of the homicide were released.
According to the research, Ana González, the 11-year-old girl who was strangled and raped, before the brutal attack inside the apartment, the victim saw “the long-haired neighbor” on the stairs attached to her house, when she was returning from throwing out the garbage.
This he told his father, Carmelo González, by telephone after he asked him about a man’s voice that was heard in the background.
According to the Police, this description coincided with that of Juan Carlos García Rodríguez, who faces charges of aggravated homicide and is being held in Shreveport (Louisiana) awaiting extradition to Harris County.
The last communication between father and daughter occurred around 10:02 am on Saturday, August 12, when she told him, through a WhatsApp message, that someone was knocking on the door of the apartment.
Carmelo González later asked him if he had opened and if someone had entered the house. The girl responded, according to what the father told the authorities, “that she was still in the bed in her room.”
Those were the last words the girl sent via text to her father. After this, she did not receive messages from Ana again, despite the fact that he asked her several subsequent questions.
González returned from work around 2:30 pm to find her daughter dead, wrapped in a black bag inside a laundry basket.
González’s boss confirmed that he worked that Saturday, August 12, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences determined that Ana died from a blunt force blow to the head and that she was also strangled. The minor was also subjected to sexual abuse.
Two facts caught the attention of the authorities before the indictment and arrest warrant against García Rodríguez was issued.
One, the physical coincidence of the long hair and, the second, that in a statement given to the authorities on the day of the crime, he stated that he had spent the night in another apartment and that he had returned to his home around 1 pm
The people he stayed with that night of Friday, August 11, said that García had left the place around 9 am to his apartment. A difference of four hours compared to the testimony before the police.