Overview
- In a Mar-a-Lago address, President Trump said Jocelyn Nungaray was killed by members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang that he claimed were sent by Nicolás Maduro.
- Harris County authorities have not said the accused, Franklin Peña and Johan Martinez-Rangel, are affiliated with Tren de Aragua.
- Nungaray was sexually assaulted, strangled and left in a north Houston bayou in June 2024.
- The two Venezuelan nationals are charged with capital murder, prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty, no trial date has been set, and both remain in the Harris County Jail on $10 million bail.
- The capture of Maduro has drawn questions from some Democrats about legal authority, while the administration characterized the operation as largely law enforcement with no advance notice to Congress.