Overview
- A 32-year-old woman identified in local reports as Caroline Peña arrived at Val Verde Regional Medical Center with multiple stab wounds just after 2 p.m. Thursday and later died after being flown to a San Antonio hospital.
- Del Rio detectives reviewed surveillance video, interviewed witnesses and collected evidence that led to the arrests of Kitty Mia Diaz, 21; Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19; and Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, within hours of the attack.
- After Peña’s death the three suspects were each charged with murder and booked into a GEO Correctional Facility pending magistration as investigators continue gathering evidence.
- Friends and neighbors said the attack happened in broad daylight near a busy intersection by a Sonic, leaving the small border city stunned and Peña’s five children without their mother.
- Police asked anyone with information or footage to come forward as they search for a motive and said additional charges could be filed as the probe and the suspects’ court process move forward.