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Pasadena police identify person of interest in murder of 11-year-old girl

Posted on August 18, 2023 · Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, 18, had recently been staying in the same apartment complex as Maria Gonzalez before leaving on Monday afternoon, two days after her death, according to Pasadena police.

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Convicted murderer Syed Rabbani, ‘abandoned’ by previous defense attorneys, to be removed from death row after 35 years

Posted on November 16, 2023 · Rabbani, 58, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 in the shooting death of 21-year-old Mohammed Jikar Hasan. His 1994 request for a new punishment phase of his trial was granted earlier this fall, and Harris County prosecutors are no longer asking for the death penalty as Rabbani is in a vegetative state, according to his new defense attorney.

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A.J. Armstrong transferred to second Texas prison since being convicted of parents’ murders

Posted on September 27, 2023 · Armstrong, who was found guilty Aug. 16 in Harris County, was transferred Saturday to the George Beto Unit in East Texas after spending less than a week at a facility in the Corpus Christi area.

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A.J. Armstrong requests fourth trial after being convicted of parents’ 2016 murders

Posted on September 19, 2023 · A new defense attorney for the 23-year-old Armstrong, who was a teenager at the time of his parents' deaths, claimed in a motion for a new trial that he should have been tried as a juvenile and that prosecutors should have provided previous defense attorneys with information that questioned the credibility of a key witness.

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Man accused of murdering 11-year-old girl in Pasadena awaits extradition after arrest in Louisiana

Posted on August 21, 2023 · Juan Carlos Garcia Rodriguez, 18, was charged with capital murder and arrested over the weekend. He is accused of killing his 11-year-old neighbor, Maria Gonzalez.

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Pasadena police identify person of interest in murder of 11-year-old girl

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