HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A brutal discovery 28 years ago has a Houston family still seeking answers following the death of a beloved Sharpstown Middle School student.

On June 7, 1997, a security guard discovered the body of 14-year-old Erica Garcia inside the abandoned Alief General Hospital. Authorities said the young girl had been beaten, raped, strangled, and left in her underwear.

Since then, no arrests have been made.

"I gotta find out who did it. I need to know," her mother, Margarita Garcia, cried while speaking with ABC13.

Erica was the oldest of the children, and her mother said she had recently been selected to be on the school's cheerleading team.

"She was looking forward to that, but she didn't make it," Margarita said.

On the evening of June 6, 1997, Erica's aunt, Brend

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