Father of slain baby arrested in Lubbock
Posted on 12/27/2002 12:31:11 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Father of slain baby arrested in Lubbock
12/27/2002
LUBBOCK, Texas - The father of an 8-month-old girl who was shot in the chest and killed as her mother tried to protect her on Christmas morning was arrested in this South Plains city overnight.
Eladio Camacho Navarro, who had threatened the woman in Houston with a revolver, was held in Lubbock city jail on a capital murder charge in the death of Nayeli Navarro. She was shot as her mother turned to protect the baby and herself from her common-law husband.
The elder Navarro was discovered asleep in a residence at about 12:30 a.m. Friday, said Lubbock Police Sgt. Jeff Davis.
"We had received word of a possible location in Lubbock, and HPD (Houston police) and the Texas Rangers got with our SWAT team and briefed them on the Houston incident," Davis said. "At about 12:30, they forced entry into a residence and found the suspect asleep. He was taken into custody without further incident."
Police were unsure of Navarro's relationship to anyone in Lubbock.
Law officers had initially thought Navarro might have been headed for Mexico after he eluded arrest in Houston.
Alma Mosqueda, 32, said her common-law husband of two years, was drunk when he stormed into their home and started punching her in the head and pulling her hair. She said Navarro pulled a revolver from under the mattress, loaded it and left the house without telling her where he was going. He returned about 6 a.m.
"He accused me of cheating on him," Mosqueda told the Houston Chronicle in Friday's editions. "I said, `I'm going to take our daughter and leave,' and he said, `I'll kill you first.' "
Mosqueda could see Navarro's loaded .38-caliber revolver tucked into his pants, but she didn't think he would use it. But Mosqueda, clutching her daughter to her chest, watched in horror as Navarro charged toward her and reached for the gun.
She instinctively twisted to her right to shield the little girl.
"I said, `I don't care if you shoot me, but you're not going to kill the baby,' " said Mosqueda. "I guess he wanted to hit my heart, because he fired a bullet where my heart would have been and hit the baby.
"I said, `You killed the baby!' and he screamed, `Oh my God! What did I do?' He grabbed the baby and threw the gun on the floor. I called 911, and he said, `Don't call the cops,' and left the house in my car.
"He loved the baby," Mosqueda said. "The baby was everything to him. She was a beautiful, chubby baby who was always happy and always smiling."
Father of slain baby arrested in Lubbock
Yeah, right. Still in denial I see. I'll bet she has a new guy just like him by this time next year.
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That pretty much sums it all up, right there...
Many times when I read things like this words fail me.
Like this time. Just damn.
CHICAGO (AP) - A 6-year-old girl was beaten to death when she tried to break up a fight between her mother and her mother's boyfriend, police said. Alma Manjarrez suffered bruises over much of her body in the beating early Wednesday, police said. The girl's 26-year-old mother did not immediately seek help, waiting until 3:30 a.m. to dial 911, police spokesman Thomas Donegan said.
Sounds like it -- a new common-law "husband" who will love her just like the old one.
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