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<h6 id="ra-headline"><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Woman w</strong><strong>ho lost baby in miscarriage arrested in murder of Texas mother; missing newborn found safe</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Houston Cops find 6-week-old Shamali Flores after they&#8217;re alerted to suspicious-looking couple handling newborn baby</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Houston police found Carolina Flores, 33, dead with multiple stab wounds in a northeast Houston apartment on Dec 19</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Cops found Carolina Flores&#8217; 6-week-old baby, Shamali Flores, </strong></span><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>safe in a Houston apartment</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez, 28, </strong></span><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>was taken into custody and </strong></span><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>charged with capital murder in Flores&#8217; death on Thursday morning</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Her boyfriend is </strong></span><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>not yet charged, remains under investigation </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>The suspect &#8220;was due to have a baby in January and she lost that baby,&#8221; cops said</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>&#8220;She continued to fake her pregnancy with loved ones and on Dec. 19, she went to the home of our victim [Flores] and brutalized and murdered her&#8221;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Alvarez was friends with Flores&#8217; brother and has been a friend of the family for sev</strong>eral years</span></h6>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-287144" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carolina-and-Shamali-Flores-2.png" alt="Carolina and Shamali Flores 2.png" width="722" height="377" />Houston police found new mom Carolina Flores, [left],</strong><strong> stabbed to death in a northeast Houston apt on Tuesday. She&#8217;d suffered multiple stab wounds and her 6-weeks-old baby, Shamali [right], was missing</strong></h6>
<p>Authorities in Houston arrested a woman hoping to hide her own miscarriage in the stabbing death of a Texas mother and the disappearance of her infant.<br />
Houston police found 6-week-old Shamali Flores after detectives were alerted to a suspicious-looking male and female handling a newborn baby, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said during a press conference Thursday. Based on pictures, detectives determined the newborn was the missing child.</p>
<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-287140" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Erika-J.-Miranda-Alvarez-2.jpg" alt="Erika J. Miranda-Alvarez 2.jpg" width="581" height="807" /><br />
Erika J. Miranda-Alvarez, was arrested and formally charged with capital murder in the stabbing death of Carolina Flores and the abduction of the victim&#8217;s weeks-old baby</strong></h6>
<p>Erika J. Miranda-Alvarez, 28 was arrested Thursday morning at an apartment at 9707 South Gessner, Houston. She was formally charged with capital murder in this ongoing investigation, Houston police announced<br />
Shamali had been missing since Tuesday, when a family member found her mother, Carolina Flores, dead in a Houston apartment from multiple stab wounds. At the time, the baby girl was nowhere to be found, police said.<br />
Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez was charged with capital murder in Flores&#8217; death, though her boyfriend is not yet facing any charges. He remains under investigation, police said. Police said Alvarez was friends with Flores&#8217; brother and has been a friend of the family for several years.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-287143" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Shamali-Flores-2.jpeg" alt="Shamali Flores 2" width="646" height="485" />Houston police found Ms Flores&#8217; 6-week-old baby Shamali Flores, safe in a Houston apt, following a tip</h6>
<p>A $5,000 reward was being offered for information on Flores’ murder and Shamali’s whereabouts. Houston Police chief Art Acevedo said during a press conference Wednesday the suspect was &#8220;familiar with this family and familiar with this neighborhood. The individual who abducted Shamali may be a woman who has or will present the child as their own, and may even indicate the child was recently born.”<br />
The police chief noted after the arrest Thursday the theory &#8220;proved to be accurate.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;This woman was due to have a baby in January and she lost that baby,&#8221; Acevedo explained. &#8220;She continued to fake her pregnancy with loved ones and on Dec. 19, she went to the home of our victim and brutalized and murdered her.&#8221;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-287142" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Houston-Police-tweet-on-finding-babby-Shamali-Flores.png" alt="Houston Police tweet on finding babby Shamali Flores.png" width="642" height="321" /><br />
Acevedo also acknowledged an arrest would not have been possible without &#8220;community policing and community trust&#8221; as well as assistance from the FBI.<br />
In urging residents to come forward with tips ahead of the arrest, Acevedo recognized “mistrust” from the immigrant community toward police and emphasized tips can be submitted anonymously.<br />
“We want to make sure that people understand that our one focus &#8230; our only goal is to bring justice to this family and that baby back to where she belongs,” he said. “We’re not interested in anybody’s immigration status.”</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-287139" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Caoline-Flores-and-her-daughter-Flores-1.png" alt="Caoline Flores and her daughter Flores 1.png" width="641" height="635" />Police found Carolina Flores, [Photo, seen here with Shamali], dead with multiple stab wounds in a NE Houston apt on Tuesday</h6>
<p>Officials initially thought Shamali was taken by her father, Marcos Mariano Palacios. He’d also been operating under the alias Thomas Bernardez, <a href="http://www.khou.com/news/local/baby-shamali-flores-found-southwest-houston-apartment/501302824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KHOU </a>reported.<br />
Authorities found him in San Antonio Tuesday night and he has been cooperating with the investigation.<br />
Palacios denied involvement in the crime and has since been released.</p>
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Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez, who lost baby in miscarriage arrested in murder of Houston mother; Cops find missing 6-week-old Shamali Flores after tip on suspicious-looking couple handling newborn baby
