MAGNOLIA, Texas -- Two teenagers admitted to killing another teenager because he dated a suspect's sister, deputies told KPRC Local 2 Monday.

Montgomery County sheriff's deputies said a jogger found 17-year-old Eugene Posana Villaruel dead in a wooded area in the 28200 block of Ascot Farms at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

He suffered trauma to the upper body and head, detectives said.

Deputies said evidence at the scene suggested Villaruel had been killed elsewhere and dumped in the woods.

Investigators said Edson H. Olvera Garza, 18, and Edgar Arturo Sazo, 17, admitted to killing Villaruel because he was dating Sazo's 14-year-old sister.

The suspects said they told the victim they were taking him to a party and then stabbed him to death, officials said.

"The victim in this case was told he was going to come up into Montgomery County and go to a party with the two suspects. Instead of going to a party, they took him to the remote area in the western part of our county and he was brutally murdered," said Lt. Dan Norris of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.

Garza and Sazo were charged with murder and are being held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond.

Villaruel was a junior, and Garza and Sazo are seniors at Westfield High School, 16713 Ella Blvd., in northwest Harris County.

A neighboring agency helped reveal the victim's identity.

"We were very fortunate that a Harris County Sheriff's Office patrol deputy saw the reports of the initial death investigation and called to see if possibly the missing person case he had been involved in could in fact be our homicide victim," Norris said.

When Norris was asked about a motive, he gave a surprising answer.

"You can fill in any blank that you care to with the Hispanic culture and how they, meaning the Hispanic culture, sometimes thinks and or deals with family issues," Norris said.

A reporter asked Norris about hate crimes and if it was motivation for the killing.

"Let's look at the heritage of everyone involved," Norris said. "Everyone involved in this case is Hispanic and comes from a Hispanic heritage. From there, you can fill in whatever blanks you need to."

"For this idiot to say that is pretty insensitive!" League of United Latin American Citizens spokesman Rick Dovalina said.

Dovalina said law enforcement professionals should not make such statements.

"It's like Montgomery County shouldn't take really this matter seriously because it happens with these people," he said. "That's what's so, so irritating about the statement."

Dovalina said LULAC will ask the Montgomery County Commissioners and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department for an apology

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Montgomery County Crime Stoppers at 800-392-STOP.