Texas man executed for 2001 killing of 5-year-old girl abducted from a store

Published November 15, 2023 9:29 PM

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been executed for abducting a 5-year-old girl from a Walmart store in 2001, strangling her and setting her body on fire. Fifty-three-year-old David Renteria received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the Texas penitentiary in Huntsville for the November 2001 killing of Alexandra Flores. Prosecutors said the girl was abducted from the El Paso store during a holiday shopping trip. She was the youngest of eight children in her family. Two of her siblings who witnessed the execution, Ignacio and Sandra Frausto, held up a photo collage of her afterward. They said through tears that they would never forget the baby in their family and now could really begin to heal.

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