At today's news briefing, Chief @ArtAcevedo released these photos of missing 6-week-old Shamali Flores & her deceased mom, Ms. Carolina Miranda Flores, 33. Please call @CrimeStopHOU if you have any information in this active Amber Alert case. All tips remain anonymous. #hounewspic.twitter.com/XOmD3vqllA

— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) December 20, 2017

A woman in Texas killed a young mother and kidnapped her 6-week-old baby to hide her own miscarriage and pass the child off as her own, Houston cops said.

Erica Miranda-Alvarez, 28, was charged with capital murder in the fatal stabbing of Carolina Flores, 33, HPD Chief Art Acevedo said in a press conference Thursday.

Police say Miranda-Alvarez killed Flores and took her 6-week-old daughter, Shamali, Tuesday afternoon in a housing complex on Goodson Road, in northeast Houston.

She had previously been pregnant and was due in January, but suffered a miscarriage and was trying to hide it from her boyfriend by claiming the baby as her own, cops said.

Authorities believe Miranda-Alvarez was friends with the victim’s brother.

Little Shamali was found unharmed and is now in the care of Texas Child Protective Services, officials said.