Daniel Vargas Cartagena was charged and arrested in connection with the death of Maria Flores on Concourse Drive in the SW Houston apartment

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An arrest has been made months after a woman was found dead in a backyard of a southwest Houston apartment complex.

The Houston Police Department announced that 30-year-old Daniel Vargas Cartagena has been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of 37-year-old Maria Flores.

Cartagena was arrested Friday by the Texas Department of Public Safety in Karnes County, Texas.

Investigators said the fatal shooting happened Sept. 4 in the 9400 block of Concourse Drive.

When police entered the complex, they found Flores’ body after she had been shot multiple times on a walkway.

HPD shared on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, a surveillance video of Flores and Cartagena walking together before the shooting.

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