The unlawful Venezuelan migrants accused of murdering Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston lured the 12-year-old woman beneath a bridge, the place they stripped her bare to the waist and assaulted her for 2 hours, disturbing new court docket paperwork allege.
Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, allegedly sure Jocelyn’s fingers behind her again through the brutal assault, then strangled her and dumped her physique in a bayou, a Harris County court docket heard Monday.
Pena Ramos additionally allegedly requested his employer at a development website for cash so he might skip city after the homicide, prosecutors stated, in keeping with Fox 26 Houston.
Each males are charged with capital homicide for Jocelyn’s dying. Harris County District Lawyer Kim Ogg stated prosecutors haven’t dominated out pursuing the dying penalty within the case.
Pena Ramos appeared in court docket on Monday, when a decide set his bond at $10 million.
Pena Ramos, 26, crossed the southern border illegally at El Paso, Texas, simply final month, The Put up first reported final week, citing sources.
Pena Ramos minimize his ankle monitor off two days after Jocelyn’s physique was discovered within the swampy bayou in Houston on Monday, Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) sources informed The Put up.
Rangel Martinez was additionally given an ankle monitor, however had it eliminated on Could 15 as a result of authorities decided he had no recognized legal historical past and appeared at his required check-in, sources stated.
Pena Ramos was set to seem earlier than an immigration decide in July, whereas Rangel Martinez was set to seem in immigration court docket in August.
Each of the accused have immigration holds, which ICE makes use of to make sure they continue to be in custody.
Jocelyn snuck out of her dwelling round 10 p.m. Sunday, in keeping with investigators.
She was later seen in surveillance footage at a neighborhood comfort retailer, the place the suspects had been seen following the woman as she walked into the shop.
Jocelyn’s mom, Alexis Nungaray, stated she believes her daughter was taken “benefit of” by her killers.
“I’m like offended that they took benefit of her. She was so younger,” the grieving mother informed KHOU.
Jocelyn’s funeral will happen Thursday and can be paid for by Texas furnishings tycoon Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale.
A Houston resident discovered Jocelyn’s physique the day after she snuck out of her home. At first, the native, who had been driving by the creek, thought the physique was a model, she informed KTRK-TV.
“I did a U-turn, and I finished on the bridge, put my flashers on, appeared down, and realized it was somebody. I parked proper right here and known as 911 instantly,” she stated.
The 2 Venezuelan migrants had been arrested Thursday at a neighborhood condominium complicated, the place they’d been dwelling collectively as roommates.
When cops confirmed up, certainly one of them tried to leap over a balcony in an try to flee, however was finally nabbed by authorities, witnesses informed native outlet KHOU.
It stays to be seen whether or not the 2 alleged killers had been related to the violent Venezuelan gang El Tren de Aragua.
There have been many tales of unlawful migrants committing heinous crimes of late.
Earlier this month, an Ecuadorian migrant allegedly raped a 13-year-old woman whom he sure and gagged in broad daylight in a Queens park.
The alleged rapist, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, crossed the border illegally into Eagle Go, Texas, in 2021 and was ordered eliminated by an immigration decide the following yr — however by no means left, The Put up beforehand revealed.
Authorities additionally arrested a migrant from El Salvador who crossed illegally into the US 3 times in two months, was booted, after which made it in undetected on his fourth attempt — and went on to allegedly rape and homicide Maryland mother of 5 Rachel Morin.
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