HOUSTON — A whole bunch of mourners packed two overflow rooms at a Houston funeral dwelling to say goodbye to 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray on Thursday — the 12-year-old who was allegedly brutalized and murdered by two unlawful migrants.
Amongst these have been relations who admitted their views on the border and immigration modified perpetually after Jocelyn was discovered strangled and certain in a bayou.
“I used to really feel unhealthy for the immigrants, however ever since this occurred its made me change my thoughts about who to let in and who to not let in” Christine Nunez, a cousin of Jocelyn’s grandmother, informed The Publish exterior Earthman Resthaven Funeral Residence and Cemetery.
“I can’t say all of them are unhealthy, there’s good individuals, however they should shut the borders and never let everyone in, and take a look at every particular person, and take a look at whose good for the general public and whose good for the neighborhood.”
“She had an entire future forward of her, she was bubbly and enjoyable, she didn’t observe no one. She was her personal individual,” Nunez mentioned.
Those that knew her keep in mind her for being vibrant and outgoing.
“She was very energetic. If you’d see her she made others snicker, she at all times spoke. She was only a completely satisfied lady,” mentioned January Revada, who was Jocelyn’s center college educational advisor.
A secretary on the college, Erie Benson, remembered Jocelyn as “a really candy lady” and a hardworking scholar.
“She cared so much about her research. She had mates. She was very good,” Benson mentioned.
Jocelyn was killed a while on the evening of June 16 after she snuck out of her home and allegedly encountered 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos and 21-year-old Johan Jose Rangel-Martinez, two migrants from Venezuela who had illegally crossed into the US earlier this yr and have been launched by Border Patrol brokers.
Each males got GPS ankle displays earlier than they have been launched.
And each have been apparently working for a neighborhood development foreman, whom they frantically known as after the killing and requested for cash to flee the nation, in line with prosecutors.
The suspects have been seen on safety footage along with her close to the bridge the place she was allegedly killed.
After by no means coming dwelling that evening, Jocelyn’s physique was discovered certain by the palms and toes and dumped in a bayou creek.
Pena and Rangel-Martinez are being held on $10 million bail, charged with capital homicide.
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