Police say a Mansfield homicide investigation turned into a same-day interstate Amber Alert that ended with a 4-year-old recovered safely and the victim’s son jailed on murder and kidnapping charges.

MANSFIELD, Texas — A 20-year-old North Texas man is accused of fatally stabbing his mother, taking a 4-year-old boy from her home and driving into Missouri before troopers found the child safe and arrested him hours later, authorities said.

The case drew attention across two states because it began as a fatal stabbing inside a Mansfield home and quickly became a child abduction investigation with an Amber Alert. Police identified Raymond Isaac Carmona as the suspect after officers found 63-year-old Andrea Colgrove dead and learned that the boy in her care was gone along with a tan 2009 Toyota Corolla. Carmona now faces murder, aggravated kidnapping and vehicle theft charges while investigators continue to sort out the events that led from the home on Cotton Drive to a gas station in Christian County, Missouri.

Police said the investigation began at about 8:50 a.m. on Jan. 31, when officers were called to the 200 block of Cotton Drive after a family member found Colgrove unresponsive on the floor. Mansfield officers and emergency medical crews responded, but Colgrove was pronounced dead at the scene. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner later determined that she died from a stab wound to the neck and ruled the death a homicide. As detectives worked through the scene, they learned Colgrove had legal guardianship of a 4-year-old grandson who was missing. A tan 2009 Toyota Corolla was also gone. Investigators soon focused on Carmona, Colgrove’s 20-year-old son. According to police, the child was entered into state and national missing-person databases as the search widened beyond North Texas. By then, the case had shifted from a homicide inside a suburban home to an urgent hunt for a missing child and a vehicle believed to be moving across state lines.

Authorities said evidence developed during the day suggested the Corolla had traveled into Missouri. Missouri officials issued an Amber Alert on the afternoon of Jan. 31, and the car was also entered into law enforcement databases as stolen. Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers then found a Corolla matching the alert parked near a Casey’s gas station in Christian County. The Amber Alert in Missouri went out at about 2:15 p.m., according to local Missouri reporting, and the child was found safe roughly 10 minutes later. Troopers took Carmona into custody at about 2:25 p.m. to 2:40 p.m., depending on the account cited by local outlets and police summaries. Body camera footage described by news outlets showed armed troopers approaching the car and ordering the driver to show his hands. In a statement highlighted after the arrest, Missouri authorities credited license plate reader technology and tips from the public for helping officers move from searching to locating the child in minutes.

Officials have released only limited details about the child because of his age, but reporting from local Texas television outlets said the boy is Carmona’s 4-year-old nephew and Colgrove’s grandson. Mansfield police publicly confirmed that Colgrove had legal guardianship of the child, but some agencies initially did not spell out Carmona’s exact relationship to the boy. Missouri reporting named the child in the Amber Alert, but many later accounts withheld that information. What is clear from the public record is that the child was recovered alive inside the Corolla and later turned over to Child Protective Services. Authorities have not publicly explained where Carmona went after leaving Mansfield, how long he stayed in Missouri before the alert was issued, or whether anyone else had contact with him during the trip. They also have not publicly detailed what prompted the fatal confrontation inside the home. Those unanswered questions remain central to an investigation that is still active.

The case has also highlighted the way a local homicide inquiry can spread quickly across jurisdictions. Mansfield is a fast-growing city southeast of Fort Worth, and the home where officers were sent sits in a residential area far from the Missouri county where the arrest was made. Once investigators believed the missing child and vehicle had crossed out of Texas, the search required coordination among Mansfield police, Missouri authorities and, according to later statements, the Arkansas and Missouri highway patrols. Mansfield police said the safe recovery showed what can happen when agencies share information quickly across state lines. Police also relied on state and national databases used to flag missing children and stolen vehicles. Local television coverage in Texas said the child was entered as a critical missing person before the Amber Alert sequence in Missouri. In practical terms, that meant a morning welfare call at a house in Mansfield turned into a regional law enforcement response before the day was over.

After the arrest, Mansfield detectives traveled to Missouri and interviewed Carmona. Police said he admitted involvement in his mother’s death during that interview. Carmona was later returned to Tarrant County. Local reports citing court and jail records say he was indicted by a grand jury on Feb. 6 and booked into the Tarrant County jail on combined bond totaling just over $1 million, with one report listing the amount as $1,007,500. The charges listed in news reports are murder, aggravated kidnapping and theft of property involving a motor vehicle. FOX 4 reported that his first court appearance was set for Feb. 23 in Tarrant County. Public reporting has not indicated any additional charges beyond those counts, and investigators have continued to describe the case as ongoing. Court proceedings are expected to address the allegations in stages, beginning with early appearances and any later motions over evidence, statements and the child abduction timeline.

The facts released so far leave a stark picture of violence at the start of the day and a rapid police response by the afternoon. Colgrove was described in public records as the legal guardian of the young boy who disappeared from the home. Carmona, shown in booking and police images circulated after the arrest, was 20 at the time authorities accused him of killing his mother and driving away with the child in her Corolla. In one widely reported exchange from body camera footage, Carmona asked troopers, “What’s your problem, man?” and an officer answered that the stop involved an Amber Alert. Mansfield police later said the case was “a powerful example” of officers working across state lines to protect communities and serve victims of crime. For now, the public case file remains only partly filled in, with the central allegations laid out by police but key personal and investigative details still withheld.

The case remained open as of March 16, 2026, with Carmona jailed in Tarrant County, the child recovered safely and prosecutors moving the charges through court. The next public milestone is the court process in Tarrant County as investigators continue to release information in the homicide and kidnapping case.