Children rescued after kidnapping in Texas and murder linked to Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang

police arrested Three individuals linked to Tren de Aragua allegedly involved in the kidnapping and murder of a Texas man whose body was found in August.

The body of 33-year-old Nilzult Petit was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in Irving, Texas, on August 24. Officers found Petit’s body and later found two young children reportedly related to Petit wandering along the IH-35E highway. path.

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Officers said these children were left on the side of the road after Petit was allegedly executed by suspects linked to the transnational Tren de Aragua gang. Reporting from FOX 4 Dallas.

According to a statement made by police, four Venezuelan citizens allegedly kidnapped Petit and his two young relatives and took them to an apartment in Texas Farmers Branch. Investigators reported that the suspects executed Petit and then abandoned the children on a nearby service road.

Four suspects are allegedly linked to the death of Nilzult Petit and the kidnapping of his two young relatives, and one is still at large. (Çiftçi Branch Police Department)

Farmers Branch police identified and arrested three suspects involved in this case: 38-year-old Ehiker Alexander Morales Mendoza, 25-year-old Carlos Luis Zambrano Bolivar, and 22-year-old Jhonata Nahin Toro Gonzalez. The suspects face charges of capital murder and two counts of aggravated kidnapping.

Authorities are still searching for the fourth suspect, 29-year-old Jhonny Jesus Martinez Serrano.

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Police alleged that Petit was working with the suspects in an ATM theft scheme. When it was reported that Petit had not paid his accomplices, they retaliated by kidnapping both him and the children.

Two of the suspects, Bolivar and Gonzalez, were arrested by ICE agents Mendoza was detained in Aurora, Colorado, and Homeland Security agents in New Mexico. Tren de Aragua has been linked to gang activity since August, when surveillance footage of an Aurora, Colorado, apartment building occupied by the crime syndicate went viral.

Still footage from social media videos shows suspected Tren de Aragua members at the Roosevelt Hotel allegedly attacking nearby Times Square in a series of robberies. (Obtained by New York Post)

Tren de Aragua is headquartered in Venezuela but has recently expanded its operations, including drug and human trafficking, to the United States.

Farmer Branch Police Department officials stated that the suspects and Petit were affiliated with Tren de Aragua, but these crimes were not gang-related.

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Bolivar, Gonzalez and Mendoza await extradition from colorado and New Mexico respectively.

Anyone with information on Serrano’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Farmers Branch Police Department at (972) 919-1406 or email [email protected] and can remain anonymous.