A teenage girl was allegedly strangled to death by a man she met on Snapchat who put her in a chokehold after they had sex.
Annabelle Margaret Floren-Wyant, 18, was found dead in the bedroom of Jorge Meza Alarcon Jr, 26, at 2:53 a.m. Thursday at their home near El Paso, Texas.
The teenager told a close friend she was visiting him to “collect money” from one of his subscribers, and he dropped her off at 12:48 a.m.
Once inside, she texted her friend saying Alarcon was “weird” and asked him to text or call her periodically to check on her, the friend told police.
When the friend did not hear from Floren-Wyant for about 90 minutes, he called 911 at 2:26 a.m. to report the situation, according to an arrest affidavit.
Annabelle Margaret Floren-Wyant, 18, was found dead in the bedroom of a man she met on Snapchat who said they had arranged to meet for sex.
Police found her dead on the bedroom floor, with her underwear pulled down to her ankles and blood near her ear, but no other obvious signs of trauma.
Floren-Wyant was from Colorado Springs and it was unclear how long she had been in El Paso or what she was doing there.
Alarcon was found about three miles from his home with facial injuries and claimed the couple agreed on Snapchat to meet for sex.
He claimed that after they became intimate, she hit him in the back of the head with her phone when he turned around to get the money, and the next thing he remembered was walking near where they found him.
Alarcón called 911 to report the attack and gave police an iPhone 15 with a cracked screen and a gold casing.
However, he later changed his story to describe putting Floren-Wyant in a jiu-jitsu-style chokehold because he feared the meeting was an ambush.
He claimed she had threatened him earlier and that he was uncomfortable with the meeting because he saw a car parked outside.
Alarcon said she also frequently texted someone she described as her “boyfriend,” and that she feared he would come and attack her.
Then, when Floren-Wyant allegedly hit him with the phone, he “instantly transitioned into a leg lock but then transitioned into a ‘D’arce’ chokehold which he demonstrated on the interview room floor,” the affidavit explained.
Jorge Meza Alarcón Jr., 26, is accused of strangling her with a jiu-jitsu-style chokehold.
Alarcón said he then got out of the car, left the house through the gate, got into his father’s truck and left.
“Jorge was asked if he knew Annabelle was dead when he left the room and he replied ‘without checking her pulse,'” the affidavit reads.
‘(He) said he “knows how to do locks,” because “he likes to train,” and he knows that when using the choke hold “you only get two or three hits on you.”
Alarcón explained to officers that all his weight was on her neck and that he was pulling on her head as part of the movement.
The isolated property north of El Paso where Floren-Wyant was killed
“Under the circumstances explained by Jorge, he had an extreme indifference to human life when he deliberately applied a chokehold to Annabelle, which he reasonably knew would create a serious risk of death,” the affidavit alleged.
Alarcon was charged with first-degree murder and sent to the El Paso County Jail.
He has a history of alleged strangulation attacks, having been charged with assault in December in a case before the Fourth Circuit, according to South Korean Television.
Then, in March, a woman was granted a restraining order against him.
Alarcon was also accused of strangling a dog to death in February and then dumping its body in a dumpster at The Vineyards apartments in Colorado Springs.
He was charged with animal cruelty and criminal damage, according to KOAA.
