Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub earlier this week in Edna, Texas.

The Edna Police Department located the suspect, identified as Rafael Romero, on Saturday in Schulenburg, Texas.

The Texas Rangers, who investigate major violent crime as part of the state’s Department of Public Safety, arrested Romero for capital murder — which makes the suspect eligible for the death penalty if convicted — and took him to the Jackson County Jail.

  • Phlogiston@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Fucking weird that the murderer ended up dead in the mom’s bathtub. I wonder if mom killed him?

    /j

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      7 months ago

      I know you’re joking but the inclusion of the genderd pronoun does make it more clear about who was found in the tub.