A woman who was a 19-year-old grocery store clerk in 1996 when authorities allege she picked up her toddler who was refusing to go to bed and threw her into a wall, killing the little girl in Fort Worth, was arrested Saturday in Mexico 26 years after she fled while under indictment on capital murder.<\/p>\n
Maria Narez, now 48, has been a fugitive since she was indicted in 1999, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Narez told police that she was depressed and stressed when she told Kasandra White that it was time for bed. Narez said she got mad when the 3-year-old refused.<\/p>\n
“It angered her. She picked the baby up by the chest under her arms, threw her into a wall, and her head struck the door edge,” Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Fred Pendergraf told the Star-Telegram in 1996.<\/p>\n
Kasandra started crying said ‘It hurts,’ and went to bed,” Pendergraf said.<\/p>\n
Narez was jailed on Nov. 13, 1996, after taking Kasandra to a hospital when the child lost consciousness a day after she was injured in an apartment in the 2500 block of Park Hill Drive, police said. Kasandra died three days later.<\/p>\n
An autopsy showed that Kasandra’s death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n
Narez initially told hospital employees that Kasandra had fallen off a bicycle but later told staff members and a detective that she had hurt her child, Pendergraf said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was a 19-year-old grocery store clerk in 1996 when authorities allege she picked up her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,142000,141999,141998,141871,142001],"class_list":["post-405340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-fred-pendergraf","tag-grocery-store-clerk","tag-kasandra-white","tag-maria-narez","tag-tarrant-county-criminal-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405340","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=405340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}