HOUSTON (WCMH/AP)–Houston Police arrested a man after the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was walking home from an after-school meeting.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Acting Police Chief Martha Montalvo and Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson held a news conference Saturday morning to discuss the arrest of Andre Timothy Jackson, 27. He is accused of killing Josue Flores.
The sixth-grader was walking home from a science club meeting after school May 17 when he was attacked and fatally stabbed on a sidewalk a couple of blocks from his home in a neighborhood just north of downtown Houston.
Jackson was charged Friday and is being held in the Harris County Jail on $100,000 bond.
A 31-year-old man with a long criminal history was arrested days after the killing, but a murder charge was dropped when detectives found evidence to support his alibi that he wasn’t involved.What others are clicking on: