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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mother of 5 Arrested in Fatal Stabbing

By Laura Nesbitt
Mountain View Telegraph
          Reno Davila, 39, was fatally stabbed multiple times sometime during the late evening hours last Sunday, Undersheriff Heath White said.
        According to court papers:
        Irma Garcia, 32, was arrested on an open count of homicide and is being held at the Torrance County Detention Facility on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
        Garcia was arraigned Wednesday in front of Torrance County Magistrate Judge Steve Jones in Moriarty.
        According to White:
        The crime took place in the Sweetwater Hills area of Moriarty.
        When deputies arrived sometime after midnight, Davila was still alive.
        Davila and Garcia had recently moved to the area from Texas. Their five children, ages 4 to 15, were at the residence during the dispute. They are being cared for by personnel with the state Children, Youth and Families Department.
        According to the criminal complaint:
        Deputies Dominique Smith and Sam Hannah were called by dispatch operators to an address on East Cummings Road because of a domestic fight in progress.
        When the deputies arrived, a woman identified as Regina Garcia, two children and Davila were sitting in a vehicle. Regina Garcia told the deputies that Davila had been stabbed in the chest. Davila's clothes were covered in blood and he was complaining of back pain. Regina Garcia's relationship to Irma Garcia is unknown.
        "(He) pleaded to make the pain stop," the complaint states.
        Regina Garcia told deputies that Irma Garcia and Davila "had been arguing on and off all day" while drinking two 30-packs of beer, the complaint states.
        Irma Garcia was still in the home with three other children.
        After knocking at the front door and getting no response, the deputies walked into the house through an open back door.
        There was blood on the floor, walls and doors of the home.
        Irma Garcia was lying on a bed covered with a blanket with blood on her face and her hands.
        Emergency medical assistance personnel arrived and put Davila into the back of an ambulance and took him to University of New Mexico Hospital. It is unclear whether Davila died en route to the hospital or after arriving, deputies said.