LA GRANGE, Texas (KXAN) – The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, with the help of the Texas Rangers, are investigating a murder in La Grange.

Randy Noviskie, Chief Deputy with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, said a 16-year-old boy allegedly killed a woman on Truesdale Road on Monday just before 10 a.m.

After the murder, the teenager left the scene in the victim’s car but he was arrested a few hours later in Smithville.

According to authorities, the teenager ran away from a juvenile detention facility last week and since then he had been involved in an auto theft spree in Bastrop, Schulenberg and Huntsville.

Authorities have not released the name of the victim or how the victim was killed. An autopsy on the victim is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Austin.

Because the person is a juvenile suspect and is back in custody, KXAN is not releasing his name.