Summary of Offense:
Convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of baby Angel Moreno. Velez was found guilty of causing the infant's death when he shook him at he and his girlfriend’s Vermont circle home in Brownsville.
Authorities allege that the suspect also struck the baby in the head, and found bruise marks on his body. He was declared deceased on November 1, 2005, the day of his first birthday. This morning, his eight-year-old son, Jose Manuel Velez gave testimony and said that his father had never hurt him in the past and that he missed him very much. The mother, Acela Rosalba Moreno, is currently in jail after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child to avoid the death penalty.
Velez was sentenced to death in Cameron County in October 2008.
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