Man arrested in stabbing death of 11-year-old Houston boy

HOUSTON (AP) — A man suspected of stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy to death as he walked home from school was arrested Wednesday, but a motive for the killing remained unclear, authorities said.

Federal marshals took Che Lajuan Calhoun into custody on the city's southeast side and turned him over to Houston police homicide investigators, Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez said.

Houston police wouldn't say how they tied Calhoun, 31, of Houston, to the fatal attack on Josue Flores, a sixth-grader at Marshall Middle School.

Court records show Calhoun was born in Michigan and that his several criminal cases in Harris County, where Houston is located, go back to 2012 when he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of making a terroristic threat for threatening to stalk and assault someone.