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The vicious, broad-daylight murder of a Texas mother of five was far from a random act of violence, cops have revealed.
Instead, the three young women accused of murdering Caroline “Caro” Peña – smiling sisters Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and their pal, Kyandra Renee Faz, 21 – knew the 32-year-old victim, Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez told TMZ.
All three women were hit with first-degree murder charges after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed Peña in the back during a heated confrontation in the small border city of Del Rio on Thursday afternoon.
The chief declined to specify the nature of the relationship between Peña and her accused killers.
Police have not offered an explanation for why the four young women — two of them mothers — were fighting.
Faz told police that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Post
Surveillance footage later obtained by investigators showed Peña’s black Dodge pickup truck driving up to Faz’s house, where Cookie and Kitty arrived shortly thereafter.
The video shows Cookie fly out of the passenger seat of a black Chrysler 300 and confront Peña — while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the complaint.
Cookie is seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the document states.
That’s when Kitty and Faz jumped in — allegedly beating Peña before running away, according to the court record.
Peña was reportedly driven to a local hospital by her nephew. She succumbed to the stab wounds at around 9 p.m. at a hospital in San Antonio.
Ramirez stressed that Peña’s decision to go to Faz’s house doesn’t suggest she bore any responsibility for the violence that followed, the outlet reported.
Just two hours after the brutal attack, Cookie and Kitty flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs.
Footage taken outside the siblings’ home showed a barefoot Kitty – wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts – grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
“I saw the first girl going into the car, and I thought, ‘Whatever’… But the second one caught my eye,” independent journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later told The Post.
“That girl was in a happy mood…She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing happened,” he said.
Ramirez blasted the sisters’ demeanors as stunningly “callous.”
“My impression is it didn’t look good, and you would think there would be a little more remorse in a situation like that – it looked callous,” he told TMZ, referring to the chilling video of their arrests.
The three accused attackers are behind bars after each were slapped with $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
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