Smiling Sisters Cookie and Kitty Butchered a Loving Mom of 5 in Brutal Daylight S.t.a.b.b.i.n.g – Their Friendly Faces Hid a Shocking Horror!
Two sisters and a friend have been charged with fatally stabbing a 32-year-old mother of five in broad daylight, according to police in Texas.
The Del Rio Police Department announced Friday that Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, had been arrested in connection with the killing.
The victim, Caroline “Caro” Peña, was stabbed multiple times Thursday afternoon and was taken to Val Verde Regional Medical Center shortly after 2 p.m. local time.
Because of the severity of her injuries, Peña was airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio for emergency surgery but later died.
Police responded to the medical center and traced the attack to an address in Del Rio, a city of about 35,000 residents along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Authorities have not disclosed a motive, leaving Peña’s devastated family searching for answers.
“This wasn’t something that happened in a back alley. This happened at the corner near Sonic on one of our busiest roads in broad daylight,” Peña’s childhood friend, Zelina Ochoa, told KENS 5.
Ochoa said the two met as teenage mothers while participating in the Cradles in the Classroom program for young parents.
She recalled that Peña often cared for her son while she caught up on schoolwork and later helped furnish her first apartment by giving her baby clothes, a television, a VHS player, and videotapes.
“If you needed something and she had it, even if it was her last, she’d give it to you,” Ochoa said.
Another close friend, Christina Salinas, said she had spent the evening before the attack cooking with Peña and her daughter.
The following day, Salinas said she missed a call from Peña at 1:35 p.m., only minutes before the fatal confrontation.
“I feel like if I would have answered that call, honestly I would have been there with her. It wouldn’t have gotten like that,” Salinas said.
Later, Salinas recognized a photo posted on a community page showing a woman wearing a blood-soaked shirt.
“Her hair was in the same bun. When I saw that, that’s all I needed to see was the back of her shirt. I knew it was her right off the bat,” she said.
“That girl, she was a fighter. She was still standing her ground,” Salinas added.
After learning what had happened, Salinas rushed to the hospital, where she was able to say goodbye to Peña. She said Peña was still conscious and speaking, and she kissed her before she was flown to San Antonio.
According to police, sisters Kitty Diaz and Cookie Diaz were arrested without incident at around 4 p.m. Thursday. Faz was taken into custody a short time later, and all three suspects were transported to the Del Rio Police Department for booking and processing.
KENS 5 obtained video showing one of the Diaz sisters smiling at the camera before being placed into a patrol vehicle during her arrest.
Peña was pronounced dead at about 9 p.m. Thursday. The three suspects were subsequently charged with murder and transferred to a correctional facility, where they remained in custody awaiting their initial court appearance as of Friday.
