A year after the death of Daylon Fleitas González, a 37-year-old Cuban resident of Hialeah, his family is still unable to find solace.
On Monday, August 3rd, the first anniversary of the crime was observed, and his brother Marlon Fleitas spoke with Univision to make it clear that they will not rest until the responsible party is brought to justice.
On that same day, Marlon and his mother began their day by visiting the cemetery where Daylon, father of three children, rests.
"This morning I got up, picked up my mom, and we went to the cemetery. It’s really painful, can you imagine? What can I say?" Marlon recounted, summarizing the emotional state of the entire family.
The victim's brother described a conversation that repeats between him and his mother, Carmen, reflecting the impossibility of adapting to the absence.
"My mom asks me if I'm getting used to it. She says, 'I'm not getting used to it,' and then asks me, 'Are you getting used to it?' and I tell her that I'm not either," he pointed out.
“That person has to pay, very well, they have to pay for what they did”, said the victim's brother about the main accused, Alfredo Carballo González.
The judicial process is progressing with delays that have prolonged the family's agony.
In the latest hearing, a tentative date was set for the start of the trial at the end of August 2026, postponed from May due to a lack of agreement between the defense and prosecution and the absence of the accused in a virtual hearing.
Carballo remains in the Miami-Dade County jail without bail, charged with second-degree murder with a weapon, armed robbery - a charge added in May 2026 - and tampering with physical evidence.
Her ex-partner, Ariely Álvarez Cabrera, is facing charges of concealment and evidence tampering, and is currently under house arrest.
What happened on August 3, 2025?
Daylon left his home in Hialeah to collect a debt of 10,000 dollars that Carballo, a close friend, owed him, and never returned.
Surveillance cameras in a truck parking lot in Medley, Florida, captured the violent altercation and Carballo dragging Daylon's body toward a blue recycling container located at the back of the victim's truck.
After the crime, Carballo used Daylon's phone to send WhatsApp messages to his wife, pretending to be him and claiming that he had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had fled to Mexico.
The body was found on August 9, 2025 inside the container, in a wooded area of southwestern Miami-Dade, with multiple stab wounds.
Escape to Mexico and extradition
After the crime, Carballo and Álvarez Cabrera fled to Mexico with their five-month-old baby. Álvarez Cabrera was arrested there in September 2025 and extradited to Florida, where she was placed under house arrest after posting a $200,000 bail.
Carballo was captured on January 27, 2026, and extradited to Miami, where on February 19, he pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial.
Daylon's mother, Carmen, encapsulated the family's feelings with each postponement of the process: "We will never have peace again, because they tore a piece of our family away from us."
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