Third suspect arrested in taking pictures dying of HCSO deputy Darren Almendarez, sheriff says

A choose will weigh doable bonds for all three suspects, together with a 17-year-old.

A number of of Almendarez’s relations might be within the courtroom, together with his 14-year-old daughter, Andrea. She desires to ensure her dad’s accused killers keep behind bars.

“He was my world and I used to be his world,” Andrea stated.

Andrea misses her dad each single day.

“He was the sunshine on the finish of my tunnel,” Andrea stated.

That mild extinguished on March 31 when Almendarez left Joe V’s along with his spouse. He was killed in a shootout with three suspects who investigators stated have been making an attempt to steal his catalytic converter.

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“I feel he would not need them to get away with it,” Andrea stated. “He’d need justice for himself.”

The highway to justice travels via a Harris County courtroom. A listening to is scheduled for a choose to determine if Joshua Stewart and Fredarius Clark will stay held with out bond.

“We do not see these hearings actually because it is a marshaling of all of the state’s proof in the beginning of those proceedings,” KHOU authorized analyst Carmen Roe stated.

Roe stated to safe a ‘no bond’ the state might want to show the defendants might be finally discovered responsible and that the dying penalty would be the probably punishment.

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“To indicate your hand this early is one thing that it’s a must to consider goes to provide you a tactical benefit that you just want or on this case that it is warranted as a result of we’ve to make sure these defendants do not exit on the road it doesn’t matter what bond is about,” stated Roe.

For the reason that third suspect, Fredrick Tardy, is 17 and never eligible for the dying penalty, he’ll obtain a bond it doesn’t matter what. However the household hopes it is excessive sufficient to maintain him locked up.

“I need her (the choose) to know he took away a father. He took away an uncle. A member of the family,” Andrea stated. “Somebody who does one thing like that should not get any reward for it.”

A search warrant obtained by KHOU 11 Information exhibits the suspects used the identical gun in one other taking pictures throughout a catalytic converter theft simply two weeks previous to Almendarez’s dying. It is proof, the slain deputy’s household says, all three accused murderers are a menace to the general public.

“In the event that they let him out on bond at any quantity, they’re simply letting him out to do that once more to someone else. He isn’t going to cease,” stated Alice Almendarez, the deputy’s niece.

The listening to will embody witness testimony and video proof. A choose will rule on the bond by Wednesday.