{"id":263596,"date":"2026-04-24T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:29:09","slug":"two-teenagers-arrested-charged-in-connection-after-17-year-old-girl-shot-to-death-at-valentines-day-house-party-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263596\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers arrested charged in connection after 17-year-old girl shot to death at Valentine&#8217;s Day house party, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; Investigators have confirmed two brothers were arrested in connection with the death of a teenage girl on Valentine&#8217;s Day at a house party in February, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said 19-year-old Enrique and 18-year-old Romeo Aguilar were arrested Tuesday by the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s District 1 Crime Reduction Unit and the Violent Criminals Apprehension Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a release on Thursday that they have taken the case over from the Houston Police Department after it was determined that the shooting did not happen on Dagg Road as previously reported, but happened in unincorporated Harris County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HCSO said witnesses initally told them the shooting happened on Dagg Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ORIGINAL REPORT: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/16-year-old-girl-killed-shooting-south-houston-house-party-dagg-road-hpd-says\/18600800\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16-year-old girl killed in house party shooting in Houston&#8217;s southside, HPD says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives said they were notified around 7 a.m. of  a party near Millroy Lane attended by nearly 300 people. It remains unclear what led up to the shooting, but officials said 17-year-old Mariah Alatorre had been taken to the emergency room before being transferred to HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was determined that Alatorre had been shot several times in her arm and in her stomach, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During the two-month investigation, officials determined that Enrique and Romeo were involved. They were both taken into custody, where Enrique was charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said Romero had been charged with possession of a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Investigators have confirmed two brothers were arrested in connection with the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[98738,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-263596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-98738","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}