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Police Concentrating on Video to Get a Clue of the Death of the 5-Year-Old Boy
Julian Salazar Soliz, the death of this five-year-old boy, is now creating sensations among the crowd. Travis county Sheriff’s office is investigating this homicide case. On Thursday, in an East Austin funeral home, friends and family of this boy gather to mourn his death. Covered in numerous colorful silk flowers and white cloth his casket arrived in a cemetery in South Austin. This private funeral and the subsequent burial were attended by dozens of people. The family and friends of Julian marked another day of mourning.
According to Police reports, the boy was found to have disappeared from his Shoreline apartment home in northern Travis County early on Saturday. In the nearby Wells Branch area, the boy’s body was discovered later that day from a yard of a home. The boy’s 21-year father, Leonard “Ivan” Soliz reported that the boy was found dead and was said to have died suffering from internal injuries. The boy was in the custody of his 22-year-old girlfriend Nichole Turner. Soliz told in a report that the boy went off missing before Turner got up early on that morning.
Representative for the Travis County sheriff’s office, Roger Wade says, “Investigators are reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance video from cameras in the Wells Branch area to collect additional information.” He further adds, “We’re thinking outside the box and trying to locate evidence and leads concerning the case, and one of the ways we did that was by going around and looking around for videotape”. This videotape might turn out to be helpful as it might give them a clue regarding Julian’s death. He further commented that Sheriff’s office has received some important clues and the investigators who are working on the case “are gathering some good information.”
The father of the boy reportedly has last seen the boy the day before his death and his 23-year-old mother Jessica Salazar informed authorities that since the last one month, she had not seen her son. The boy’s father has a past criminal record of assault charges against his present girlfriend Nichole Turner in 2006. According to reports, when he was 18, he tried to choke his girlfriend, who was 19 at that time.
A report says that in 2004, Child Protective Services has probed Soliz and Salazar as they hurt their 3-month-old child in a family boil. CPS found a “neglectful supervision” on the parents’ part and closed the case. They thought this was just a mistake and would never be repeated as the parents might have realized their mistake. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services opined that.
Last year, the young couple was involved in a case for the custody of their child in the Texas attorney general’s office but the case was closed without any reason. This incident shows the limitation of these agencies to clarify the incidents.
