Suri Baeza, a 15 year old Dallas resident who left her home in Orange Walk, Belize as a toddler in 2002 was killed on Tuesday at her home in Rockwall, a suburb of Dallas.
Her stepfather, Juan Enrique Torres, also from Orange Walk, confessed to the murder yesterday.
The murder has caused quite a stir in the small community and the story has been widely covered by local station there. You can see the following report from NBC in Dallas Forth Worth:...
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Rockwall-Police-Say-Teens-Murder-Solved-176857401.html
And just to clarify, Juan Enrique Torres is from Belize, not Brazil.
According to our reports he had a common law and a wife in Orange Walk and he left them in 2003 to go and live in the states.
He reportedly joined Suri Baeza's mom when her husband got deported to Belize.
Dallas news reports say Torres is Belizean who has been in the US on a passport since 2003 - which we take to mean that he has been there illegally.
The slaying was Rockwall's first in more than eight years. It is a mostly Hispanic community.
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