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HOUSTON -- An arrest has been made in the brutal carjacking that resulted in the stabbing death of a mother of five. Harris County Sheriff’s investigators said they arrested one suspect in the murder of Tina Davila and charges have been filed against an illegal immigrant they say stabbed the woman several times.
Davila was walking into a mobile phone store in northeast Harris County Wednesday afternoon when a man grabbed her keys in an attempt to steal her car. Davila, whose 4-month-old daughter was still in the car, fought the would-be carjacker.
In the struggle, the man repeatedly stabbed Davila before making a getaway in a waiting car driven by an accomplice. The whole brutal attack was captured by the mobile phone store’s security cameras.
Investigators said too that the assailant was caught in security video stealing beer from a convenience store not long before the attack at the mobile phone store.
Early Friday morning, the sheriff’s office arrested Kennedy Escoto at his southwest Houston residence. Investigators said Escoto was the driver of a stolen, gold Taurus used as the getaway vehicle in the attack on Davila.
The sheriff’s office said that during a confession, Escoto identified Timoteo Rios, 24 – who is also an illegal immigrant from Mexico – as the man who attacked Davila. Capital murder charges have been filed against Rios, who investigators said they are looking for.
Escoto has been charged with aggravated robbery.
It all began Tuesday at a Northeast Harris County convenience store. Video surveillance shows what became a common theme: Carjackers with knives, targeting women.
In a video obtained exclusively by 11 News the passenger of a white car gets out of the vehicle and walks into the store.
That's when the carjacker approaches the female driver, who is waiting in the vehicle.
Police say using a knife, he forces her out. She hurries inside, uninjured.
Then a second carjacker jumps into the vehicle, hops in the driver's seat and takes off.
Police said that carjacking on Market Street on Tuesday is just the beginning of a crime spree.
The next day, police say the same men targeted and carjacked another woman at Bellaire and Bissonnet. Again, the victim was unharmed.
That carjacking involved a gold Ford Taurus that was used in the attack on Davila later in the day said Denholm.
The third woman targeted Wednesday night off Uvalde was Davila. Unlike the previous carjacking victims, she fought, back.
“I wish she was here,” said her fiancé Billy Brewer, who won't forget what happened next.
Video shows Davila trying to pay a mobile phone bill at Cricket store.
That's when police say Timoteo Rios tried to grab her keys. Davila tried to fight him off.
That's when police say Rios stabbed her.
The word of the arrest early Thursday morning of 17-year-old Escoto was a relief for Brewer.
“A lot of relief. I'm glad they caught someone. I mean it's like lifting a weight off of me,” Brewer said of Escoto’s arrest.
Brewer now hopes police make a second arrest soon.
[link to www.txcn.com]
Here is the video
[link to www.liveleak.com]
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