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The affidavit said Castro, a student at Mendota Junior High School, initially told police he knew nothing of the boy's disappearance. When investigators said the boy had been found in the dryer, the teen suggested someone had broken into the house and put him there.
Castro eventually told police he had enticed the dimpled, brown-eyed boy into his house across the street and sodomized him, the affidavit states. He said he killed Mercado after the child fell and hit his head, started crying, then threatened to tell his mother, the document states.
"Castro said he panicked and decided to kill the victim by drowning him in the bathtub," the affidavit says.
The teen, who is 5-feet tall and weighs 170 pounds, put Mercado's body over his shoulder and carried him to the dryer, hoping everything "would go away," the affidavit states.
more here - including aunt saying family had recv'd death threats (tho unconfirmed by LE)
http://cbs13.com/local/mendota.murder.alex.2.1292922.html
The affidavit said Castro, a student at Mendota Junior High School, initially told police he knew nothing of the boy's disappearance. When investigators said the boy had been found in the dryer, the teen suggested someone had broken into the house and put him there.
Castro eventually told police he had enticed the dimpled, brown-eyed boy into his house across the street and sodomized him, the affidavit states. He said he killed Mercado after the child fell and hit his head, started crying, then threatened to tell his mother, the document states.
"Castro said he panicked and decided to kill the victim by drowning him in the bathtub," the affidavit says.
The teen, who is 5-feet tall and weighs 170 pounds, put Mercado's body over his shoulder and carried him to the dryer, hoping everything "would go away," the affidavit states.
more here - including aunt saying family had recv'd death threats (tho unconfirmed by LE)
http://cbs13.com/local/mendota.murder.alex.2.1292922.html