HOUSTON — Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare is addressing the murder charge against a man accused of fatally shooting an 11-year-old boy playing “ding dong ditch” in east Houston.

The suspect in the case, Gonzalo Leon Jr., 42, was taken into custody on Tuesday morning by members of HPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics Detail and Criminal Apprehension Team and booked into the Harris County Jail.

The victim has been identified as Julian Guzman, 11 . Doctors pronounced him dead on Aug. 31 after he was taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. His family started a GoFundMe account to raise money in the wake of the tragedy.

Teare said investigators put together pieces of evidence to make an arrest, in part based on an eyewitness -- Guzman's cousin, who was with him knocki

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