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Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced that a murder indictment was handed down by a grand jury Tuesday morning against Andre Jackson in the 2016 murder of 11-year-old Josue Flores.
On May 17, 2016, 11-year-old Josue Flores was walking home from school in the 1900 block of Fulton in his Near Northside neighborhood. Somewhere along the way, Josue was reportedly stabbed some 20 times.
The death of the 11-year-old shook the entire Houston community.
Andre Timothy Jackson, 29, was arrested June 3, 2016, in the death of the Marshall Middle School student. On July 19, 2017 the Harris County DA announced Tuesday that DNA evidence and blood analysis were inconclusive. The charges against Jackson were dropped.
Recently, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said the DNA evidence did not eliminate Jackson as a suspect. Acevedo said DNA from the Josue Flores case was sent to a forensics lab in Utah that has testing not available in Houston, and that forensic techniques have improved since the time of Josue’s death.
Those results were recently submitted to a grand jury.