Shreveport police arrested Guatemalan national Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, 18, who is awaiting extradition back to Texas to face capital murder charges in the Aug. 12 death of Maria Gonzalez.
“We want to say thank you to the Pasadena Police Department and to Louisiana police and any officials that participated in bringing this cold-blooded murderer into custody,” Carmelo Gonzalez, Maria’s father, said in a statement to KHOU-TV. “I ask for those who are in charge to give us justice. May he be burdened with the full weight of the law, for what he has done to my daughter.”
Police said Mr. Gonzalez asked family members living in the apartment complex to go check on Maria around 1 p.m. The relatives couldn’t find the girl.
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