Authorities charge kidnapping suspect in death of ex-girlfriend: 'He needs to be held responsible'

Authorities brought a capital murder charge against a man on Friday who was apprehended in Mexico for allegedly kidnapping his ex-girlfriend, Houston-based media outlets reported.

Authorities accuse Daniel Chacon of threatening Maira Gutierrez with a firearm and forcing her to leave with him from the Red Pines apartment complex in Pasadena on Monday, Oct. 3. 

Gutierrez, who shared an infant daughter with Chacon, was later found dead in her silver SUV, while the suspected fled south of the border and was caught shortly afterward.

Houston CBS affiliate KHOU reported that a Harris County court gave the 30-year-old Chacon a $1 million bond, but it’s unclear whether the bond will increase or be rescinded because of the murder charge.

According to KHOU, the 38-year-old Gutierrez had unsuccessfully filed numerous domestic violence complaints against Chacon, who is alleged by police to have told an uncle that he thought he was going to kill the mother of four.

Houston ABC affiliate KTRK reported that Chacon didn’t appear in two slated court appearances, during one of which a judge ordered him to refrain from contact with Gutierrez’s family, surrender his passport and stay in Harris County as conditions of his bail.

The station reported that the victim’s family is relieved with his arrest.

“He needs to be held responsible,” Gutierrez’s ex-spouse, Jimmy Puente, said, KTRK reported.

KHOU reported that Border Patrol agents nabbed Chacon on Wednesday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

The U.S. Marshals subsequently took the suspect in and yielded him to the Laredo Police Department (LPD) for booking in the Webb County Jail.

Pasadena Police Department (PPD) officers then took him into custody and returned him to Harris County, per KHOU.