HOUSTON – Maria Flores was the state’s final witness in the murder trial of Andre Jackson before the prosecution rested its case.
Maria recounted to the jury what she remembered about the day her 11-year-old son, Josue Flores, was killed, including the chilling phone call she received from the police.
“I asked what happened to my son and was told he’d been stabbed two blocks from our home,” Maria told jurors.
The mother explained to the jury that she rode in the same ambulance as her son to the hospital. She was in the front and Josue was in the back.
“When the doors opened, I saw my son with a very big tube in his mouth and I saw my son was dead,” Maria testified.
The jacket investigators said Jackson had on the day Josue was killed was the focus of a DNA Chief Scientific officer’s testimony on Monday.
The chief testified that 85% of the DNA belonged to Jackson, ten percent belonged to Flores and 5% belonged to an unknown individual, she said.
Last week, prosecutors showed jurors the distinct green jacket.
Flores was stabbed roughly 20 times with a pocketknife nearly six years ago while walking home from school.
Surveillance video and photos put Jackson, the man on trial for his murder, on the same street where and when Flores was killed back in May of 2016.
A sergeant with the Houston Police Department’s Cold Case unit also took the stand and testified the division wasn’t under pressure to file charges. Sergeant Rodriguez also said the unit received the case in March 2019.
He added there were new eyes on the case and “whenever there’s a young child” involved, investigators look further into a case.
Closing arguments are set to begin Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
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