HOUSTON – “He was here with us, he was here with me.” This is how one of the roommates describes the presence for about a month of Juan Carlos García Rodríguez in an apartment they shared in the same neighborhood where the 11-year-old girl María González was brutally attacked.
García Rodríguez is the main suspect in raping and strangling the girl on Saturday, August 12, and at this time he is behind bars in a jail in the city of Shereveport (Louisiana) waiting for the authorities of that city to decide on his extradition. to Harris County where he will face charges of aggravated manslaughter.
According to this roommate, who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity, he gave her the opportunity to live under his roof, an apartment located across the street from the house where the 11-year-old girl lived with her father.
“He left on Monday, he told me I’m going to travel, I got a job and I go for a month or two and return,” says this man who shares the apartment with another person.
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Garcia Rodriguez was arrested early Saturday morning in Shereveport after he issued an arrest warrant by authorities in Harris County stating he was wanted for aggravated murder.
González was found dead inside a bag placed in a garbage basket located under the bed in her apartment. Forensic teams determined that she this she had been raped and strangled.
In the apartment where the incident occurred, a key was found that did not correspond to that apartment, but it did open the door of the unit where García Rodríguez lived together with his two companions.
This, plus the results of the DNA tests that were performed on the key, as well as on García Rodríguez himself, served as the basis for the formal accusation against the 18-year-old who arrived in the US last January after having crossed the border. in El Paso.
