15-year-old girl shot and killed as she walked dog

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A teen miss was changeable and killed portion retired walking her canine successful her southwest Houston neighborhood, constabulary say. Her household told ABC13 the unfortunate is 15-year-old Diamond Alvarez, who was a sophomore pupil astatine Madison High School.

It happened astatine astir 9:30 p.m. Tuesday astatine 15400 Park Manor adjacent Markwood Lane.

Police told ABC13 that residents said they heard weapon shots including a household subordinate of Alvarez.

Family members knew Alvarez was retired walking her canine named "Peanut," truthful they became disquieted erstwhile the canine returned without her and they went to look for her.

Her parent Anna Machado said she recovered her girl changeable aggregate times, astatine an unfastened greenspace successful their neighborhood, conscionable a mates blocks from their home.

"She was inactive breathing," Machado said recalling the infinitesimal she recovered her daughter. "I gave her CPR, but she didn't travel back."

A makeshift memorial grows wherever Alvarez was found. It's present the spot wherever household and friends mourn Alvarez's death.
"I mean, the idiosyncratic that did that to her was precise acold hearted," said Jovanna Martinez, a adjacent household person and neighbor. "It's not right. She was a blessed person, joyful. Her household loved her a lot. She had a batch of radical that loved her, she inactive volition too. She volition everlastingly unrecorded successful everybody's heart. I don't deliberation it's thing radical volition get implicit truly easy."

So far, constabulary judge this was a drive-by shooting and a dark-colored conveyance whitethorn person taken disconnected from the scene.

"Come forward. Speak up," Machado said, "and whoever did it, (they're) cowards. She didn't merit (this). She didn't merit nary of this."

Investigators are looking for surveillance video.
In the meantime, they inquire anyone with video oregon much accusation to delight telephone Crime Stoppers oregon the HPD Homicide Division astatine 713-308-9080.

Alvarez's decease marks HPD's 11th homicide truthful acold this year.

NOTE: Police initially reported the unfortunate was a 16-year-old girl.