Migrant wanted for questioning in sexual assault, strangling of girl, 11, found dead under bed by her dad

Texas cops have named an individual of curiosity within the brutal rape and homicide of 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez, who was discovered by her heartbroken father after he returned house from work.

Guatemalan migrant Juan Carlos Garcia Rodriguez, 18, is needed for questioning associated to the shocking crime, Pasadena officers mentioned.

Rodriguez reportedly lived in the identical house complicated as Gonzalez however has since disappeared.

He reportedly entered the US by means of El Paso in January, self-surrendering to frame officers earlier than being handed papers and let free into the nation.

The woman was sexually assaulted earlier than being strangled to loss of life, in line with the native health worker.

Her father, Carmelo Gonzalez, referred to as 911 on Saturday after he returned house to seek out his child stuffed into a laundry basket and positioned beneath a mattress.

He advised a dispatcher she was not respiratory and arriving medics pronounced her useless on the house.

Detectives discovered a key on the scene which didn’t match any of the doorways within the residence, however did open one other house within the complicated, officers mentioned.

Police tied Garcia Gonzalez to the residence and interviewed him — however he has not been seen since Monday afternoon.

Pasadena Police Chief Josh Bruegger wouldn’t verify stories he had efficiently fled the nation.

Cops launched a picture of the suspect and are $5,000 reward for any data that results in an arrest.

The beloved sufferer’s shattered father advised retailers he had been texting along with his daughter all through the day Saturday as a result of she was house alone whereas he was at his job.

At one level, she advised her nervous father somebody was knocking on the entrance door.

“I advised her, ‘Don’t open the door as a result of I’m arriving at work,’” he replied, according to FOX 26.

“I’m in my mattress,’” was her final correspondence.

“They left her beneath the mattress in a plastic bag,” Gonzalez mentioned. “They left my poor daughter.”

The sufferer’s gutted mom, Ana Elizabeth Xitumul Saput, has demanded justice within the case.

“I don’t wish to cry anymore, as a result of I’ve a foul coronary heart,” she told Telemundo 47 from Guatemala, the place she resides with Maria’s youthful sister and different relations.

“I would like justice. I would like her killer to show himself in and I’m asking God that kind-hearted individuals assist us deliver our daughter’s stays again to Guatemala,” she mentioned, including she simply desires to see her daughter one remaining time.