Dallas police released the identity of a 14-year-old girl found fatally shot in a ditch in West Oak Cliff.
According to a Dallas police report, a driver had called in on Wednesday, December 12, just before 3:30 a.m., saying he found a female’s body on the side of Merrifield Road in West Oak Cliff.
Dallas police did not immediately release the victim’s identity and had said she was in her 20s. According to FOX 4 News, the victim has now been identified as 14-year-old Nevaeh Foster. Investigators said the teenage victim had been shot multiple times.
Nevaeh lived with her mother, Jessica Foster, at an apartment complex less than a mile away from the crime scene.
“Right now, I’m sad,” Jessica told FOX 4 News in an interview. “But more than anything, I am pissed off because somebody felt like they were God. Like they had the right to do that to her.”
Jessica said her daughter had mental health issues and had run away before. She added that her daughter ran away on Tuesday.
In the interview with FOX 4 News, Jessica revealed that her daughter had not been attending school consistently because of her mental health issues. She said Nevaeh would usually come home the next day after disappearing.
Jessica told FOX 4 News that there had been an incident where a man had threatened her daughter’s life at their apartment complex, a claim Dallas police have declined to confirm.
Jessica said she was torn up inside and that it is a “hard enough pill to swallow,” knowing that her daughter would not be coming back.
“She didn’t deserve that. She was a 14-year-old child,” she said. “What could she have done to anger someone that much that they felt they had to shoot her? And multiple times? I don’t get it. I don’t understand.”
Dallas police have not revealed the motive behind the murder, and no arrests were made initially. However, a 22-year-old man, Tyrone Davis, has now been arrested in connection to the case. Police are charging him with the alleged murder of Nevaeh Foster.
Davis’ bond has been set at $1 million. It is unclear how police determined Davis as a suspect in the case.