{"id":231560,"date":"2020-09-26T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231560"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:36:55","slug":"texas-boy-pregnant-mother-beaten-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-boy-pregnant-mother-beaten-death\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAGIC: Eight-year-old Texas boy wakes to find pregnant mother beaten to death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police are searching for a man they say beat a pregnant woman to death. Ashley Garcia, a 27-year-old mother of three, was allegedly murdered by Alexis Armando Rojas-Mendez, age 23, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Garcia was seven weeks pregnant, according to family members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to police, Garcia’s eight-year-old son witnessed at least some of the attack on his mother. The Houston Chronicle<\/a> reported that a neighbor witnessed Rojas-Mendez beating a woman, believed to be Garcia, in the parking lot of their apartment complex, and then trying to force her and a boy into a car. They also saw him hitting her with a cell phone, before dragging her upstairs to the apartment. \u201cHe could hear what sounded like pounding noises coming from inside the apartment,\u201d court documents said. Other neighbors said they could hear arguing from inside the apartment.<\/p>\n