MIRELLA COLLAZO - 15 yo - Fort Worth TX

An amber alert has been issued for a
15-year-old girl who authorities say was abducted by a 16-year-old boy
Sunday evening in Fort Worth.Mirella Collazo was last seen about 7:20 p.m., when she was taken by
Larry Sigala, who was armed with a gun, according to the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
Collazo is said to be wearing a black sweater, white shirt and
jeans. She has black hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet 1 inch tall and 125
pounds, according to authorities.
Sigala is believed to be driving a green 1994 Ford Ranger truck with a Texas license plate No. 94BYL2.

A 15-year-old girl was kidnapped from the front of her home after a
gunman shot her friend in the head, police said. An Amber Alert is in
effect.The gunshot victim, whom police did not identify, was in
critical condition late Sunday at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort
Worth, police said. His condition was unavailable Monday morning.Police continued their search for Maria Collazo, 15, who was forced into a pickup Sunday night.The
incident happened about 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the 4400 block of Merida
Avenue as Collazo and her friend were sitting in a vehicle parked in
front of her home.At some point, a teen who police identified as
Larry Sigala, 16, and another young man walked up to the vehicle,
police said in a news release. Sigala is accused of walking up and
firing the shot, the release states.After grabbing Collazo and forcing her into the pickup, the suspects drove away, police said.Collazo
is described as about 5 feet tall, weighing about 100 pounds with black
hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweater with a
white T-shirt and blue jeans.The suspects drove away in a lime green 1994 Ford Ranger with Texas license plate 94B-YL2.Anyone with information should call Fort Worth police at 817-335-4222.

A man who was shot Sunday during the kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl in south Fort Worth has died, police said.Police,
meanwhile, were still looking for the girl, Mirella Collazo, and Larry
Sigala, the 16-year-old boy suspected of kidnapping her. Juan
Mejia-Alanis, 20, died at 11:24 a.m. Monday at John Peter Smith
Hospital, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. He
had been shot in the head, police said.The kidnapping is also being investigated as a capital murder/kidnapping, said Sgt. Pedro Criado, police spokesman.An
Amber Alert issued for the girl Sunday night was still in effect
Monday. Police said she was forced into a lime green pickup Sunday
night after the shooting.Police found the truck, but the location of that discovery was not immediately available.Erika
Collazo, sister of the abducted girl, said she heard the truck was
found abandoned in some mud on Ripy Street, about eight blocks
northeast of where the incident happened in the 4400 block of Merida
AvenueThe incident happened about 7:30 p.m. as Collazo and Mejia-Alanis were sitting in a vehicle parked in front of her home.A
teen identified as Sigala and another young man walked up to the
vehicle, police said in a news release. Sigala is suspected of firing
the shot at Collazo's friend, the release stated.After grabbing Collazo and forcing her into the pickup, the suspects drove away, police said.Collazo and Sigala began dating in January, but they broke up a few days ago, said her sister, Erika Collazo.Erika,
18, said Monday morning that Sigala might have thought the man who was
shot was trying to date Mirella, but family members believe Mirella and
Mejia-Alanis were friends, not dating.Erika Collazo also said that her sister attends South Hills High School. Clint
Bond, spokesman for the Fort Worth Independent School District,
confirmed that Sigala is a student, but he declined to say which school
he attended. Erika Collazo said she heard that Sigala went to Paschal
High School.Mirella Collazo is about 5 feet tall and weighing
about 100 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen
wearing a black sweater with a white T-shirt and blue jeans.Sigala
has been described as 5-feet-9-inches tall and weighing between 180 and
190 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair, officials said.Anyone with information should call Fort Worth police at 817-335-4222.

A 15-year-old
girl kidnapped during a fatal shooting returned home uninjured Monday
night, Fort Worth police said. An Amber Alert for Mirella
Collazo was canceled, and police said kidnapping suspect Larry Sigala,
16, was in custody. Police have said he and another man
are also suspected in the shooting of 20-year-old Juan Mejia-Alanis on
Sunday night. He died Monday morning. Mejia-Alanis was
shot about 7:30 p.m. as he sat in a vehicle with Mirella outside her
home in the 4400 block of Merida Avenue near West Seminary Drive and
McCart Avenue, police said. Witnesses told police two men
approached the vehicle in front of Mirella's house, shot Mejia-Alanis
and then forced Mirella into a pickup truck, which was later recovered.
Detailed information on the other suspect was not
available, and it was unclear what charges Sigala might face.

FORT WORTH — A 15-year-old girl who police said was kidnapped moments after a friend was shot and killed returned home safely Monday night.
Mirella Collazo's ex-boyfriend was in police custody.
Family members didn't even know if Mirella was alive after she was abducted on Sunday night. Then — around 7 p.m. Monday — they got a call from the alleged kidnapper's family who said Mirella was being released.
"They went looking for her and they found her around the corner... just walking," said Mirella's cousin, who asked not to be identified.
It was then time for an emotional reunion. "My mom started crying and we all hugged her," said Erika Collazo, Mirella's sister.
According to Fort Worth police, Mirella's former boyfriend, 16-year-old Larry Sigala — along with another man — shot and gravely wounded 20-year-old Juan Mejia-Alanis, a male friend of Mirella's, in front of her house in the 4400 block of Merida Avenue in southwest Fort Worth.
The two then drove off with the 15-year-old girl, a South Hills High School sophomore, triggering a statewide Amber Alert.

Family photo Juan Mejia-Alanis


Mejia-Alanis died Monday morning.
"She was scared because she seen everything that happened," Erika said. "She wanted to be with him; she didn't want him to go to jail."
Sigala was taken into custody at his parents' home on Monday night. Police said they were talking to him and to Mirella to learn more about the violent incident on Sunday evening.

A 16-year-old boy accused in a fatal shooting and a kidnapping
turned himself in Monday night after his former girlfriend was reunited
with her family. The girl and a family friend had been talking
in a car outside her home Sunday evening when the friend was shot in
the head, police said.Larry Sigala, 16, was taken into custody
Monday night at his parents’ home without incident, police said. The
girl, Mirella Collazo, 15, was found by her family as she was walking
along Seminary Drive. The girl was being questioned by police late
Monday night.

"She was OK," said Erika
Collazo, the girl’s sister. "She was just crying. She didn’t have time
to explain, and we didn’t want to ask too much right away. We’re just
glad she’s home."Erika
Collazo said the family was headed to Sigala’s house at the time
because they had learned he was going to turn himself in, and they
expected him to take Mirella there.The girl’s friend, Juan Mejia
Alanis, 20, died Monday morning at John Peter Smith Hospital from his
injuries, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office.The
incident began Sunday night when Alanis and Mirella Collazo sat in a
car in front of her home in the 4400 block of Merida Avenue in south
Fort Worth, waiting for her sister and her sister’s boyfriend to join
them."We were just going out," Erika Collazo said, when a
teenager identified as Sigala and another young man drove up to the
house, got out and walked up to the car, witnesses told police.Witnesses said Sigala shot Alanis in the head, police said. No further information was released about the other young man. Witnesses also told police that Sigala then forced Mirella Collazo into his pickup. The
shooting and kidnapping occurred about 7:30 p.m. A statewide Amber
Alert was issued late Sunday night; it was canceled Monday evening
after the girl was found.Erika Collazo said Monday that she ran to the car and tried to help Alanis.

After a statewide Amber Alert and nearly 24 hours of searching,
15-year-old Mirella Collazo is back home in Fort Worth. Her
ex-boyfriend and alleged kidnapper, 16-year-old Larry Sigalas, is in
police custody.

"I was with Larry and we decided to split up. He was going to go to his house and I was going to go back to mine," Collazo said.

She says she was walking back home by herself around dinner time when
her family spotted her. Her mother was understandably overjoyed.

"When I seen her, she just broke down in tears, happy to see me," Collazo said.

"We just got so happy cause I mean because we just wanted to know that
she was still here. We thought that he might take her away, like far
where we can't ever see her again," said Erika Collazo, Mirella's
sister.

Mirella Collazo dissapeared Sunday night from her front driveway. She
was waiting in a vehicle with 20-year-old Juan Mejia-Alanis, a friend
of her sister's. Police say Sigala and an accomplice showed up around
7:30 p.m., fatally shot Mejia-Alanis, then abducted Collazo. She says
Sigala misunderstood the situation and reacted out of jealousy because
the two had broken up the night before.

"Larry, he's not a bad person, he didn't mean to kill Juan. It's just that he was mad and he thought something else," she said.

Collazo wants the community to know she's okay and that she's heartbroken over what happened.

"Thanks for worrying about me and I feel really bad for Juan's family. I can't imagine how they feel," she said.