UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – A woman arrested for capital murder in connection with a 9-year-old boy’s stabbing death has been identified as the child’s mother, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KSAT.
Wilma Jamitza Medina, 50, was taken into custody and charged with capital murder of a person under 10 years old, Bexar County court records show.
The victim, identified as David Ehanire-Medina, was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Wednesday. According to the affidavit, Ehanire-Medina suffered multiple stab wounds on both sides of his neck.
“I don’t think that anything could have prepared our first responders of the city for what they saw,” Universal City Police Department Detective David Fawcett said during a Thursday morning news conference. “It was devastating.”
The full Thursday morning news conference can be seen in the video player below.
Universal City police officers were dispatched around 5 a.m. on Wednesday in the 8200 block of Zodiac Drive for an active disturbance call. The 911 call, who authorities said was placed by the child’s father, told the 911 dispatcher that his wife stabbed his son.
According to the arrest warrant, Universal City officers went inside the home and found the child’s father, Eseosa Ehanire, clutching the leg of Medina as she lied on her back with blood stains on her shirt. Ehanire-Medina was found unresponsive on a bed, bleeding from his neck and torso area, documents indicate.
In the warrant, a Universal City police detective wrote that “while attempting to secure the residence,” Medina moved towards a bathroom and grabbed a knife from the counter. She then stabbed herself in one of her legs, the affidavit stated.
Officers were able to remove the knife from Medina’s hand through a struggle, according to the warrant. During the struggle for the knife, officers said they heard Medina repeatedly say, “I cannot live without him” and “let me die.”
Ehanire, who identified himself as a China Grove police officer, later told the officers he arrived home after his night shift. Moments later, while he was in a restroom, Ehanire told investigators that he heard noise coming from a TV in the living room, which grabbed his attention, per the warrant.
However, when Ehanire went to the living room, he told Universal City police officers that he then heard a scream coming from a bedroom. The scream came from Ehanire-Medina, records show.
According to the affidavit, Ehanire forced entry into the bedroom because the door was locked. When he turned on the lights, according to Universal City police, Ehanire saw his son lying on top of Medina. There were noticeable amounts of blood on the child and the bed, according to Ehanire’s interview with police.
Medina was holding a “dagger-style knife” and stabbed herself in the chest with her left hand while she held the child in her right arm, the warrant stated. After a struggle, police said Ehanire gained control of the knife and threw it out of Medina’s reach.
“This is what you want,” Medina said to Ehanire after he gained control of the knife, according to the affidavit.
Ehanire then dragged Medina to the area of a bathroom located in the front of the home, where he called 911, the Universal City police detective wrote in Medina’s arrest warrant.
During an interview with Medina at a nearby hospital, Universal City police said she remembered the current date, her name, the current U.S. president and other family-related information.
However, Medina also told officers that she was being “followed” and that people with flashlights on top of her roof were attempting to enter her home, according to her arrest warrant.
Medina was booked into the Bexar County jail on Thursday afternoon. KSAT obtained her mugshot from the jail on Thursday evening.
According to Bexar County court filings, she faces a $600,000 bond.
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