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by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. CLICK FOR NEWSPAPER DELIVERY
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Stabbing death stuns neighbors on Camargo Dr.
By Guy H. Lawrence
Caller-Times
Residents in the 2600 block of Camargo Drive were stunned Saturday when they learned a 28-year-old woman died in her home there after being stabbed multiple times.
Even neighbors who were up late into the early hours of Saturday did not know a homicide had occurred in their neighborhood until police vehicles arrived. Some woke up to yellow crime scene tape and a police evidence van parked outside the home. Parked in front of the home was a large white truck with a bumper sticker that read: "Back the Blue, For a Safer Community."
Police were called to the home at 1:07 a.m., where officers found the woman, who had been stabbed in the torso. She was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial, where she was pronounced dead.
Officers arrested a 40-year old man at the scene, and he was taken to the Nueces County Jail.
Police would not release the name of the victim or the suspect or the owner of the home.
Neighbors said three people lived at the home.
Even neighbors who were up past 1 a.m. didn't realize that their quiet neighborhood had evolved into a crime scene.
Arturo Cortez said he and his wife were using binoculars to stargaze and noticed the suspect's vehicle slowly pass by at about 1 a.m.
"When I woke up in the morning, there was crime scene tape up and everything," Cortez said.
His neighbor, Raul Nunez, who lives next to the scene, ignored a late-night knock at his door, only to find out in the morning what had happened.
"I looked through the peephole, but I ain't going to open the door for nobody," Nunez said. "This morning I wake up and see the policemen."
Tara Williams, who lives across the street from where the incident occurred, said she never heard anything during the night that indicated there was a homicide across the street. But in the morning, police were all over the scene, she said.
She only knew the people from the suspect's home in passing and waved to them whenever she saw them outside.
"They seemed like nice people," Williams said.
Contact Guy H. Lawrence at 886-3792 or at lawrenceg@caller.com
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