Slain cheerleader’s family seek answers as man arrested in stabbing | US News

The family of a high school cheerleader found stabbed dead in a bathtub in her home has broken their silence amid a man’s arrest in the case.

Lizbeth Medina’s mother found her body last Tuesday after the 16-year-old failed to show up at a Christmas parade she was supposed to perform at.

Four days later, cops arrested Rafael Govea Romero, 23, who is undocumented and has an expired visa, authorities said on Monday.

Lizbeth’s aunt, Ana Medina, said the family is ‘glad he’s apprehended and in jail because if not, there would’ve been more victims’. But they are still searching for answers.

‘We don’t know who that is. We don’t know anything about that person. Nobody knows,’ Ana told The Messenger on Monday.

‘He’s no one we know. That’s the worst part. We don’t know why, why, why. We don’t have a why yet.’

Lizbeth’s mother, Jacqueline Medina, left for work early on December 5 and later went to the town’s Lighted Christmas Parade where Lizbeth was set to perform with fellow Edna High School cheerleaders. But Jacqueline did not see her daughter there.

The mother returned to their home at the Cottonwood Apartments on the evening of December 5 and made the grisly discovery.

‘It wasn’t until I walked into the restroom that I was on the phone with my friend asking him to come help me look for her – is when I (saw) her foot, and it was in the bathtub,’ she told Fox News Digital. ‘And so I opened the curtains. There she was.’

Investigators on Friday released surveillance images of a suspect in a black hoodie walking toward a Ford Taurus near the crime scene in Edna, Texas.

Romero was taken into custody in Schulenberg, which is about 60 miles north of Edna, and booked into Jackson County Jail. He was charged with capital murder in Lizbeth’s death and granted a $2million bond.

Police are still investigating whether Lizbeth and Romero knew each other.

‘I’m just glad justice has been served and my niece is at peace,’ Ana said. ‘He won’t be doing this to anybody else. That person is in jail where he’s supposed to be.’

A GoFundMe page for Lizbeth had received more than $20,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.

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