3 women charged with murder after South Texas mother dies from brutal stab wounds, officials say — Transcript

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1. 0:00We begin tonight with the death of a Del
2. 0:02Rio mother whose friends say her
3. 0:04kindness touched everyone she met.
4. 0:0732-year-old Caroline Benya, known to
5. 0:10loved ones as Gato, died last night
6. 0:13after police say she was stabbed
7. 0:15multiple times.
8. 0:16>> And police say it happened in the middle
9. 0:18of the day on one of the busiest roads
10. 0:20in town. And tonight, these three women
11. 0:22are in jail for her murder. Arlyne
12. 0:24Sanchez has the story.
13. 0:27>> Gato Benya's friends say she was
14. 0:30impossible to forget.
15. 0:31>> She was everybody's bubbly person. You
16. 0:34know, she just had this infectious
17. 0:35laugh.
18. 0:36>> Zelina Ochoa says she and Gato met as
19. 0:39teen moms learning motherhood and life
20. 0:42side by side.
21. 0:43>> She was one of those people that
22. 0:45she was born to be a mom.
23. 0:48So
24. 0:52she really loved to be a mom. Gato was
25. 0:5432 years old, a twin, and a mother of
26. 0:58five. Her friends say she was the kind
27. 1:00of person who could turn your day around
28. 1:02and the kind who showed up when others
29. 1:04didn't.
30. 1:04>> If you needed something and she had it,
31. 1:07even if it was her last, she was going
32. 1:09to give it to you.
33. 1:10>> Her best friend, Christina Salinas, says
34. 1:12the two were inseparable.
35. 1:15>> [bell]
36. 1:17>> They had just hung out Wednesday night.
37. 1:20Yesterday, Christina says she missed a
38. 1:22call from Gato shortly before the
39. 1:24confrontation.
40. 1:25>> I feel like if I would have answered
41. 1:26that call, I
42. 1:28honestly, I would have been there with
43. 1:29her, honestly.
44. 1:30>> Del Rio police say officers were called
45. 1:32to the Val Verde Regional Medical Center
46. 1:34around 2:00 Thursday afternoon after
47. 1:36Gato arrived with multiple stab wounds.
48. 1:39Police say the assault happened on East
49. 1:4110th Street.
50. 1:42>> They stabbed her twice on her back,
51. 1:43which one of the stab wounds ended up
52. 1:46puncturing her lungs, and that's what
53. 1:48was the fatal cause and the second the
54. 1:50third stab wound was, I'm sorry, on the
55. 1:52side of her stomach right here.
56. 1:53>> Friends say images and videos appeared
57. 1:55online showing Gato wounded, something
58. 1:58that has only deepened their pain. Those
59. 2:00images have since been taken down.
60. 2:02>> That girl
61. 2:04she's a fighter, man. She was still
62. 2:05standing her ground.
63. 2:06>> Because of the severity of her injuries,
64. 2:08Gatto was flown to San Antonio for
65. 2:10emergency treatment. By 9:00 p.m.,
66. 2:12police say Gatto had died.
67. 2:14>> It's like a part of me got ripped out,
68. 2:16and that's
69. 2:17that's something that I'm not going to
70. 2:18get back.
71. 2:19>> One arrested.
72. 2:20>> Investigators say surveillance video,
73. 2:22evidence, and witness interviews led
74. 2:24them to the three suspects. Two sisters,
75. 2:27Kitty Mia Diaz and Amaya Cookie Diaz,
76. 2:30were arrested around 4:00 p.m. Police
77. 2:32say Keondra Renee Foss was arrested a
78. 2:35short time later. KENS 5 obtained video
79. 2:37showing Del Rio police escorting the
80. 2:39sisters out of a home in handcuffs.
81. 2:41Tonight, police have not released a
82. 2:43motive. Additional charges could be on
83. 2:46the way.
84. 2:47>> If only one of them had an uh had a son,
85. 2:49you know, his mom got taken away, but
86. 2:52he can still see her. Her kids are left
87. 2:55with a memory. They're left with
88. 2:57eventually a tombstone.
89. 2:59>> Alicia Niaves, KENS 5.