The 12-year-old boy's mother told ABC13 he was trying to protect her when he died. 'Our heart breaks. We shouldn't be burying our children,' Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
Harris County deputies are asking for help from the public in the continued search for Terry Rivera, accused of killing 12-year-old Carlos Fernandez.Deputies are still searching for a man accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy in Cloverleaf, urging the public to help find him.The Harris County Sheriff's Office held a press conference Friday morning as the search for the woman's ex-boyfriend, Terry Rivera, continues. He's charged with capital murder."Our heart breaks.
The boy's mother, Ashley Rostro, said she begged authorities to protect her from her abusive ex, but she feels like that didn't happen. She says Rivera killed her son with a gun he stole from her home when he broke in and threatened her just days before.Carlos Fernandez was killed while defending his family from his mother's abusive ex-boyfriend in their Cloverleaf home, according to his mom.
Rostro said Rivera reached through the window and pushed a television off a dresser. Charging documents state that he said, "Yeah, what's up? What's up?" "He just grabs me by the neck and pushes me down, and then he makes his way inside the apartment, starts throwing everything," she explained."Pointing it. Like, trying to threaten me," she said.
"The information we have is that the gun being present was mentioned in our communications to the district attorney's office," Gonzalez said during Friday's press conference. "Now, I don't know if it was added in the report afterwards, but for purposes of potentially filing a charge, it was mentioned. Ultimately it was decided that a charge wasn't to be filed at that particular moment.
Rostro said the same deputy that responded to the Friday attack huddled over her son's body, performing CPR Monday.
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