Sixteen-year-old Venus Rodriguez was found dead on January 16, 2023, in a creek near the 1700 block of Brookhaven Drive in Dallas, Texas. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds; investigators described her death as a homicide. Venus had been reported as a runaway by her family in September 2022, and they believed she was with her 22-year-old boyfriend, Arturo Flores, during her absence. Family members said Venus began associating with the wrong crowd after meeting Flores.

Dallas police arrested Arturo Flores on January 21, 2023, charging him with Venus’s murder. An arrest affidavit says a distinctive blanket found near Venus’s body matched one used by Flores and Rodriguez for their dog, witnesses reported prior incidents of Flores physically assaulting Venus, and traces of blood were found on carpet beneath a recently purchased air mattress in Flores’s apartment. Flores was booked into the Dallas County Jail with bond set at $500,000 and remains in custody awaiting trial.

Does anyone have information about Venus’s movements after she left home in September 2022 or about the people she was associating with?