Updated: 11:52 AM CST March 3, 2021
Updated at 11:51 a.m. after police said they had found the girl and man involved.
A 10-year-old girl was found safe at a motel after she went missing overnight and an AMBER Alert was issued Wednesday morning in her disappearance. Her mother, Maria Romero Ramos, was found dead by a roommate, Carrollton police said.
Police added that the girl s father, Ronald Lee Singer, is now in custody. He is her mother s ex-husband and has been arrested on a murder charge in connection to her death, according to police.
Credit: Carrollton police
The girl had gone missing after Singer picked her up from a friend s home around 10 p.m. Tuesday, police say. When he showed up, the family she was with did not know the circumstances, and she left with him.
An amber alert was issued Wednesday after Rosemary Lee Singer, left, went missing. She was later found and her dad Ronald, right, charged with murdering her mom.
An Amber Alert has been canceled for 10-year-old Rosemary Lee Singer. She was found safe. Her father, Ronald Singer, has been charged in the murder of her mother in Carrollton, Texas.