'Evil person who will face his judgment': Man kidnapped, murdered woman, her teenage daughter and 2-year-old son then buried them in 'clandestine grave,' cops say

Authorities successful Alabama discovered the bodies of a missing ma and her 2 children murdered with a sharp-edged limb and buried successful the woods wrapped successful integrative and bedding, a section sheriff said.

Hector Gamaliel Argueta-Guerra, 31, has been successful the Mobile County Jail since February connected kidnapping charges. On Thursday, prosecutors added 3 counts of first-degree murder successful the deaths of Aurelia Choc Cac, 40, Niurka Zuleta Choc, 17, and 2-year-old Anthony Garcia Choc.

The Choc household was past seen astir 3 p.m. connected Jan. 30 astatine their location successful the 9000 artifact of Ben Hamilton Road successful Theodore, which is immoderate 15 miles southwest of Mobile. They were reported missing the adjacent time aft cops recovered grounds of a conflict successful the location including important amounts of blood. Authorities discovered the victims' bodies astatine a spot associated with Argueta-Guerra connected Wednesday, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told reporters during a press conference.

Prosecutors said the authorities plans to question the decease penalty.

"He's an evil idiosyncratic who volition look his judgement soon," Burch said.

The sheriff said cops are inactive trying to fig retired wherefore Argueta-Guerra allegedly killed his victims.

"What motive would determination beryllium for sidesplitting a 2-year-old?" helium said. "We don't know."

Local NBC affiliate WPMI obtained an apprehension affidavit that said the victims were killed with a sharp-edged weapon. The 2-year-old lad suffered "sharp unit trauma" to the caput country portion his parent was seemingly stabbed successful the thorax and back, the affidavit reportedly stated. They were past taken to a wooded country successful adjacent Baldwin County and buried successful a "clandestine grave."

Authorities are inactive moving to positively place the bodies but they judge they are the Choc household based connected immoderate of the jewelry they were wearing.

The suspect is allegedly a subordinate of the Sureños gang, a California-based radical associated with the Mexican mafia. Argueta-Guerra was slated for deportation successful 2021 but was released for chartless reasons, officials said.

"Hector, you are a sick idiosyncratic to bash what you did to this household and we cognize if convicted, you volition ne'er spot the extracurricular satellite again," the sheriff's bureau wrote connected Facebook.