Houston police announced Tuesday that 17-year-old Frank Deleon Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with murder.
Court records do not list an attorney who can speak on Deleon’s behalf.
The two had been going out for less than a year and Machado said she never saw any red flags to warn her that her daughter was in danger, but that “they were off and on.”Machado said her family is relieved an arrest has been made and that relatives have been keeping vigil at a makeshift memorial with candles, stuffed animals and balloons that was set up near where her daughter’s body was found.“I went up over there again, crying and said: ‘Baby you have justice. It’s not done yet.
Alvarez’s family began looking for her when they heard gunshots and then Peanut returned home on his own.
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