Houston: As it did almost every day, the 16-year-old diamond Alvarez walked with his family’s beans in the Southwest Houston neighborhood on Tuesday night.
Because it was dark, his mother, Anna Machado, told him to just stay out 20 minutes and then return home.
But the diamond never returned because he was fatally shot around 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday a few blocks away on the side of the road near grassy fields where all children play environments.
His family found his body with Greenspace after the bean ran home without diamonds.
Machado tried to revive his daughter by doing CPR, but it was too late.
“I tried and I tried and I tried.
When I (see) there is nothing more I can do, I started telling him how much I love him and that I am always here,” said Machado.
Houston police on Thursday continued to look for the diamond shoot several times.
The police said that the witnesses reported hearing several shots and then the sound of tires crushed as a dark vehicle that might escape from the scene.
The investigator has not commented on the possible motives for shooting.
Machado said when his brother heard gunshots, he called Diamond twice, but the call directly to Voicemail.
When the beans “come alone, I already know something is wrong.
I already know my baby is not fine,” Machado said.
Thursday afternoon, Machado and family members and other friends gathered in emergency warnings with candles, stuffed animals, and balloons founded near where their bodies found and diamonds remembered as happy people who work hard, love school and dream of becoming a beauty expert .
one day.
“He worked very hard at school to graduate.
And he got there,” Machado said about his daughter, who was a second year student in high school.
“And he can’t graduate.
He doesn’t get a diploma.
He can’t be a mother, marriage, children, no.” Uncle Diamond, Roberto Mejia, described him as a person who came out who was a hard worker and was willing to try new things.
“He is known for having eyelashes,” Mejia said.
“The big lashes,” Machado said when he laughed at a moment of levity.
Mejia said Diamond brought joy to everyone he met.
“We don’t believe that something very terrible will happen to sweet people like that.
He doesn’t deserve it.
Nothing does it, especially not a young woman who is 16 years old.
So, we just want justice and anyone responsible for Brought to court, “Mejia said.
The Diamond family has prepared a GofundMe page to help pay the cost of funeral.
Machado said the diamond brothers were dealing with his death as well as possible but his 14-year-old brother had trouble because he was the first person to find his body.
“He just wants to be strong.
He doesn’t want to cry,” he said.
The Diamond family still hopes that the police will find the killer.
“If someone knows, get out and talk.
Who wants someone to be out there like that, which is dangerous?” she says.
“I didn’t get my daughter back.
But at least you know she will pay.”