On Friday, police responded to a home located on McLean Avenue in west Oak Cliff around 4:30 pm after receiving information that a child had been abandoned there.
A couple reported that their two-year-old great-granddaughter had been left at their home by an unknown individual. They told the police they were concerned because the child was supposed to be in the care of her grandmother.
The Dallas Morning News stated that police then conducted a welfare check at the grandmother’s house located in the 4700 block of Lynnacre Drive in the Mountain View area. Aime Salinas-Alvarado, forty-seven years old, was found dead by a gunshot wound to the head.
According to Advocate Oak Cliff, the Dallas Police Department stated: “Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that the victim’s 15-year-old juvenile son had shot and killed her and took the child to the great-grandparents’ home after committing the offense.”
The teenager used Salinas-Alvarado’s vehicle to drop off the child and then drove to a friend’s house. It is not known how the two-year-old child is related to the fifteen-year-old boy.
The New York Post reported that the fifteen-year-old boy “provided a full confession to the homicide detective,” during an interview. The police allege that the teenager “fatally shot his mother while she was apparently babysitting her granddaughter.” The juvenile boy was arrested without incident.
The teenager is being held at the Henry Wade Juvenile Detention Facility and “faces a charge of capital murder.”
No other information has been released regarding this case.