Texas police have revealed disturbing new details in the case of a 75-year-old Houston woman found stabbed to death in her own home.
Cobos also reportedly told detectives he left the slain woman’s home with some stolen cash, went to a store to buy food, and returned to the crime scene to eat.
What Happened?
Etta Nugent was at her home on the 8100 block of Neff Street, according to the Houston Chronicle, when she was approached by Cobos who asked for help with his truck.Police said Cobos had been sleeping in the vehicle—later found to have been stolen—for several days leading up to the slaying.
The Chronicle reported neighbors had taken notice of the broken-down vehicle and Cobos living out of it over the weekend.
Cobos reportedly asked Nugent for help fixing the truck.
He then allegedly forced his way into her home and stabbed her to death.
Investigators cited by KTRK said Cobos then took about $560 from Nugent’s home and drove her car to the store to buy food and supplies.
After returning from the store, he lingered at the crime scene for several hours, according to the report.
It is unclear under what circumstances police arrested Cobos, but Houston police said in a tweet shortly before 7 p.m. that “homicide investigators are on scene and are questioning a possible suspect.”
Police also said that “preliminary information is a female was found deceased inside a residence about 1:30 p.m.”
The Chronicle reported Cobos was arrested several doors down from Nugent’s home.
Video: Special Ed Student Beaten By Group
According to reports, footage has surfaced of the brutal beating of a Long Beach special education student.The video showed several boys knocking another boy to the ground, before repeatedly kicking and punching him as he tried to shield himself from the blows.
Mccord said her son tried to run away when the teens confronted him, but they caught up to him and beat him for several minutes.
Police said they were investigating the incident as gang-related.
The victim’s mother told the Long Beach Post that incidents of groups of teenagers attacking other teens have been on the rise in recent days.
She and other parents gathered on Monday in front of the Long Beach Polytechnic High School to call for school administrators and police to take action to protect their children from attacks.
Authorities have increased the frequency of patrols in the area, according to CBSLA.
Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).Both studies are based on data up to and including 2017, the most recent year for which complete figures are available.
While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend.