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A key inside 11-year-old Maria Gonzalezs Texas apartment was linked to the unit of a teen neighbor whose location is now unknown.

A vigil was held Friday night filled with Guatemalan traditions, in honor of 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez. Her father, Carmelo Gonzalez said it is hard to express how he feels after his daughter’s murder at the Main Village Apartments. Police said he found her body wrapped in plastic and inside of a laundry basket that was placed under the bed. Investigators said she was strangled and sexually assaulted while he was at work Saturday afternoon.

An emotional candlelight vigil was held for 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez whose body was found on wrapped in a trash bag underneath a mattress in her family's Pasadena apartment.

Maria Gonzalez, 11, was found dead on Saturday, hours after her father had left her home alone while he went to work.

Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez was captured in Shreveport by police and charged with the murder of 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez, who was found dead in Pasadena, Texas.

Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez was arrested in Louisiana and charged with capital murder a week after 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez was strangled.

Louisiana police have detained a Texas murder suspect accused of assaulting and killing Maria Gonzalez, his 11-year-old neighbor, in their Pasadena apartment complex.

Pasadena police say Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, 18, has been charged capital murder in the death of Maria Gonzalez.

SHREVEPORT, La. - A man wanted for the assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Pasadena, Texas was arrested and charged with capital murder by Shreveport Police Department (SPD)

An illegal alien has been named as a person of interest after an 11-year-old girl's father found her strangled to death in Pasadena, Texas.