BACLIFF, Texas (KTRK) — The Galveston County Sheriff’s Workplace is trying to find two teenagers in connection to the loss of life of a girl discovered lifeless in her Bacliff dwelling in a single day Thursday.
The sheriff’s workplace launched photographs of 18-year-old Uriah Ureck and 17-year-old Tara King. Investigators are calling them “individuals of curiosity” who’re linked to a murder within the 4700 block of fifteenth Road in Bacliff.
In accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, deputies responded to a welfare verify late Thursday night time, which quickly turned a murder investigation with crime scene tape circling the house by daylight on Friday.
Neighbors inform ABC13 that nobody has talked to the sufferer since Tuesday night time. A involved good friend known as for assist, and when deputies arrived, they discovered the sufferer and indicators of foul play inside.
The teenager couple, who’re the sufferer’s granddaughter and granddaughter’s boyfriend, are lacking.
Neighbors stated the grandmother raised King, and Ureck lived with them. King was a pupil at Dickinson Excessive Faculty.
“I hope they discover them quickly. We’re all on excessive alert,” one neighbor, who requested to not be recognized, instructed ABC13.
The sufferer’s title and the way she died haven’t been launched. She is described as a “candy lady” in her 60s.
Anybody with data on King and Ureck’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Galveston County Sheriff’s Workplace at 409-766-2322, possibility #2, or Galveston County Crime Stoppers at 409-763-8477.
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