Friends, family members and the mothers of two murdered teens from Baytown have taken one step closer to closure.
“Before, we didn’t have anything,” Sharon Bernard said. “Now we have something. It’s at least a start.”
“They killed two people,” Marianna Castillo said. “Two young people. Our sons.”
It has been more than a year since the bodies of 18-year-old Alex Chavez and 17-year-old Jarvis Morgan were discovered beneath a bridge near Anahuac.
Authorities arrested and charged Jose Chavez and Valentin Lazo with capital murder. But a third suspect, Brandon Flores, fled to Mexico where he had remained on the run.
But now we’ve learned police in Mexico arrested him for local crimes last December, then let him go only to re-arrest him about a month ago.
And we’re told authorities in Chambers County have been fighting with Mexican authorities to bring him back to Texas. It hasn’t worked yet.
“They need to hand him over without any questions asked,” Castillo said. “They need to hand him over so they can come here and be prosecuted.”
Until then, the moms cling to their hope and their memories of their sons, whose images are tattooed on their arms.
“They’ll never grow up,” Bernard said. “They’ll never get married. They’ll never have a career. They’ll never have anything.”