Armando Alvarez described in heart-wrenching detail how his daughter had just handed him a Valentine’s Day gift when he got home from work that evening.

More than three years after 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez was shot and killed while sitting in the backseat of her family’s truck on Valentine’s Day 2022, her father took the witness stand on the first day of the trial for the man accused of killing her, Tony Earls Jr.