EXCLUSIVE — The mom of a 16-year-old Texas lady who was brutally murdered, allegedly by an unlawful immigrant from Mexico, in her own residence final December says Trump’s victory final week made her tear up.
“Once I heard the information within the morning that he received, I teared up,” Jacqueline Medina advised Fox Information Digital. “I teared up as a result of I thought of my daughter. The Biden-Harris administration failed us terribly.”
Medina’s “lovely, loving, bubbly, humorous” 16-year-old daughter, Lizbeth Medina, was murdered on Dec. 5, 2023. Rafael Govea Romero, the 24-year-old man charged with capital homicide in reference to the assault, is scheduled to face trial subsequent month.
“With [Trump] successful, I am actually hoping that there are stricter legal guidelines so we will defend our children, our kids, our households, our family members from this taking place to them once more,” Medina stated.
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Jacqueline Medina got here dwelling to search out her daughter, Lizbeth Medina, 16, useless within the bathtub of their dwelling on Dec. 5, 2023. (Instagram)
Medina stated she is aware of stricter insurance policies will not deliver again her daughter, however she is hoping they’ll “forestall this from taking place to a different baby.”
“We do not need one other Lizbeth. We do not need one other Laken Riley.”
Medina had left their house for work early on Dec. 5, 2023. Her daughter usually left for college shortly afterward, however that day she didn’t make it to highschool or the Christmas parade that her cheer group was speculated to be training for.
A Jackson County grand jury indicted Rafael Govea Romero on a capital homicide cost in connection to Lizbeth Medina’s stabbing dying. (FOX 26 Houston)
When Medina confirmed as much as the Christmas parade and didn’t see her daughter, she knew one thing was mistaken and frantically contacted family and friends for assist discovering the 16-year-old lady.
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Medina returned dwelling that night after nobody had heard from or seen Lizbeth and located her useless with an obvious stab wound within the bathtub of their Edna house.
Edna police arrested Romero in Schulenburg, Texas, 5 days after Lizbeth’s dying, in accordance with authorities.
Jacqueline Medina hopes Trump’s election win will assist forestall different households from going by what her household endured when Lizbeth was killed. (Fb)
Romero had a felony historical past in Texas and was on probation on the time of his arrest in connection to Lizbeth’s homicide, Edna Police Chief Rick Boone beforehand advised Fox Information Digital.
The homicide suspect was reportedly on probation for a 2022 housebreaking in Schulenburg, about 60 miles from Edna, the Fayette County Document first reported. Edna police stated Romero may be tied to a housebreaking that occurred at Lizbeth’s dwelling a few month earlier than her killing.
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The Edna Police Division introduced the arrest of Rafael Govea Romero, an “undocumented male” who officers imagine is “the individual accountable for the dying of Lizbeth Medina.” (Edna Police Division)
Neither Medina nor Lizbeth knew Romero, however Medina famous that their home had been burglarized on Nov. 13, a few month earlier than {the teenager}’s homicide. Edna law enforcement officials imagine Romero might have been concerned within the housebreaking and will have stalked Lizbeth earlier than allegedly attacking and killing her.
“I am nonetheless misplaced. I nonetheless really feel like I do not know what to do with my life.”
“My entire life was my daughter,” Medina stated. “And I am nonetheless discovering it very troublesome to search out myself, to search out what path I would like to absorb life. The one factor proper now that’s maintaining me robust is the truth that we nonetheless must get justice for her. Additionally, we’re attempting to maintain busy to assemble funds … for her scholarship fund that we introduced up for the cheerleaders in Edna. And we donate to particular baby advocacy funds in her title.”
The Edna Police Division is investigating Liz Medina’s dying as capital homicide. (Fb)
Medina stated she desires her daughter to be remembered for the sort and completed younger girl she was somewhat than for her tragic dying.
“However on the identical time, I do need all people to listen to her story to allow them to perceive why issues want to alter,” Medina stated. “That is the one method folks will know why we wish issues modified.”
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Romero’s trial is scheduled to start on Dec. 3 in Jackson County, Texas.
A trial for Jose Ibarra, the unlawful immigrant suspect within the February homicide of Georgia faculty scholar Laken Riley, begins this week. Medina stated she is going to watch Ibarra’s trial and preserve Riley’s household in her ideas.
