A 12-year-old girl from Houston, Texas, was brutally raped and strangled to death before her body was dumped in a creek, officials said. Jocelyn Nungaray’s family is demanding justice after the preteen was murdered after sneaking out of her home on Sunday night, KENS5 reported . “They took away my first-born.
I was a teen mom; she helped me grow, mature,” Jocelyn’s mother, Alexis Nungaray, said. “She turned into a beautiful, beautiful young lady.” “I’m, like, angry that they took advantage of her.
She was so young. She was 12. You took my baby away.
You took her away,” the grieving mom said. “Now, I get to let her little brother know his older sister is never coming home.” "You took my baby away.
Now I have to tell her brother that her sister is never coming home.” – Mother of 12 year old Jocelyn Nungaray 🎥 – KHOU 11 pic.twitter.
com/9pxaVkkVOR — Bobby Ellison (@BobbyEllisonKY) June 19, 2024 Jocelyn was last seen alive on surveillance footage from a convenience store she walked to not far from the apartment complex where she lived. The girl was on the phone with her 13-year-old boyfriend when she was in the store, Houston Mayor John Whitmire said at a press conference. “It appears that he last talked to her at a convenience store around midnight [and] heard her talking to two grown-ups,” Whitmire said.
News Briefing on Female Found at 400 West Rankin Road https://t.co/St4G5DVCrd — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) June 17, 2024 Two men also.
