Chilling final messages teen girl sent her best friend minutes before she was ‘killed by man she met on Snapchat’ in El Paso
A teenage girl was allegedly strangled to death by a man she met on Snapchat, who held her in a chokehold after they had sex.
Annabelle Margaret Floren-Wyant, 18, was found dead at 2:53 a.m. Thursday in the bedroom of Jorge Meza Alarcon Jr., 26, at his home near El Paso, Texas.
The teen told a close male friend that she was visiting him to “collect money” from one of her 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 occasionally to check on her, the friend told police.
When the friend didn’t hear from Floren-Wyant for about 90 minutes, he called 911 at 2:26 a.m. to report the situation, an arrest affidavit said.
Annabelle Margaret Floren-Wyant, 18, was found dead in the bedroom of a man she met on Snapchat, who said they had arranged to have sex
Police found her dead on the bedroom floor, with her underwear down to her ankles and blood near her ear, but no other obvious signs of trauma.
Floren-Wyant was from Colorado Springs and it is unclear how long she was in El Paso or what she was doing there.
Alarcon was found with facial injuries about three miles from his home. He claimed the two had arranged to have sex via Snapchat.
He claimed that after they had been intimate, she hit him in the back of the head with her phone as he turned to get the money. The next thing he remembered was her walking past the spot where he had been found.
Alarcon called 911 to report the attack and gave police an iPhone 15 with a cracked screen and a gold case.
He later changed his story, describing how he had put Floren-Wyant in a chokehold, a type of jiu-jitsu, because he feared the encounter was an ambush.
He claimed she had threatened him earlier and that he felt uncomfortable about the encounter because he saw a car turning outside.
Alarcon said she also regularly texted someone she described as her “boyfriend” because she feared he would attack her.
When Floren-Wyant then hit him with the phone, “he immediately moved to a leg lock, but then transitioned to a ‘D’arce’ chokehold which he demonstrated on the floor of the interrogation room,” the affidavit said.
![Chilling final messages teen girl sent her best friend minutes before she was 'killed by man she met on Snapchat' in El Paso 2 Jorge Meza Alarcon Jr, 26, is accused of choking her with a jiu-jitsu-style chokehold](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1723323821_630_Chilling-final-messages-teen-girl-sent-her-best-friend-minutes.jpeg)
Jorge Meza Alarcon Jr, 26, is accused of choking her with a jiu-jitsu-style chokehold
Alarcon stated that he then got off her, left the house through the gate, got into his father’s pickup truck and drove away.
“Jorge was asked if he knew Annabelle was dead when he left the room and he stated ‘without checking her pulse,’” the affidavit said.
‘[He] said he “knows how to do locks” because he “likes to train,” and he knows that when the choke is used, “you only have two to three taps left in you.”
Alarcon explained to the officers that he was putting his entire weight on her neck and pulling on her head.
![Chilling final messages teen girl sent her best friend minutes before she was 'killed by man she met on Snapchat' in El Paso 4 The remote estate north of El Paso where Floren-Wyant was murdered](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1723323824_115_Chilling-final-messages-teen-girl-sent-her-best-friend-minutes.jpeg)
The remote estate north of El Paso where Floren-Wyant was murdered
“Under the circumstances Jorge explained, he showed an extreme disregard for human life when he knowingly placed Annabelle in a chokehold that he reasonably knew would pose a grave risk of death,” the statement said.
Alarcon was charged with first-degree murder and booked into the El Paso County Jail.
He has a history of alleged strangulation attacks, and was charged with assault in December in a case before the Fourth Circuit, according to KKTV.
In March, a woman was granted a restraining order against him.
Alarcon was also accused of strangling a dog in February and then throwing the body in a Dumpster at The Vineyards apartments in Colorado Springs.
He was charged with animal cruelty and criminal damage, according to KOAA.