MILWAUKEE —
The odds surrounding the circumstances of a 15-year-old girl's 2008 murder were astronomical: a screwdriver thrown through an open window of a vehicle impaling her head.
Now, more than a dozen years later and with the assistance of federal investigators, the man suspected of killing Liliana Razo is scheduled to face a Milwaukee judge Tuesday.
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Vidal Rodriguez-Alvarez had been one of Milwaukee's Most Wanted and later had his own wanted poster published by the United States Marshals Service.
Investigators captured Rodriguez-Alvarez in Mexico, according to a law enforcement source.
Milwaukee County Jail records show a pair of marshals turned over custody of Rodriguez-Alvarez to members of the Milwaukee Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit on May 27 at General Mitchell International Airport.
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When Razo was killed in 2008, Rodriguez-Alvarez was 19 and according to a criminal complaint, was a member of the Mexican Posse gang.
Razo was in a parked car with two men in front of South Division High School on Sept. 5, 2008, according to the complaint.
Prosecutors said the trio spotted two Mexican Posse gang members walking down the stairs in front of the school when Razo shouted, "F--- you MPK." The acronym MPK stands for "MP Killa," an insult to the gang, according to prosecutors.
"The two Mexican Posse gang members shouted back, "F--- you b----- C-14 Killa," referencing the C-14 gang, of which the driver with Razo was an admitted member, according to the complaint.
The C-14 gang member got out of the vehicle intending to fight the Mexican
Posse gang members, but security from the high school broke up the confrontation initially.
After the groups left the school, prosecutors said the man driving Razo spotted the two Mexican Posse members from the earlier confrontation near South 13th and West Rogers streets.
According to the complaint, Rodriguez Alvarez was one of the two Mexican Posse members and started walking toward the car Razo was in.
Prosecutors said the driver told investigators Rodriguez-Alvarez threw an object into the vehicle.
"(The driver) stated his seat was partially declined and that he saw this object blur past him," prosecutors wrote. "He then looked at Liliana Razo and she was slumped over and he saw a screwdriver sticking out of her left temple."
According to the complaint, the driver took Razo to the District 2 Police headquarters.
She was later transported to Children's Hospital.
"They found the 9-10 inch screwdriver entered her left temple at a downward angle and lodged in the brainstem," according to records from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner.
Doctors removed the screwdriver the following day, the report notes.
Razo died nearly three hours later.
Prosecutors filed the criminal complaint against Rodriguez-Alvarez four days later, on Sept. 10, but police were not able to find him.
More than a dozen years would pass before the judicial process would move forward.
Circumstances surrounding the arrest in Mexico were not immediately available.
Voicemails left with the U.S. Marshals Service were not returned.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Eastern District of Wisconsin office also could not be reached for comment.
Rodriguez-Alvarez, now 32, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning.
