Authorities are seeking Timoteo Rios, who is charged with murder in the April 16 stabbing of Tina Davila during a failed carjacking.
Harris County Sheriff's Office



April 22, 2008, 9:59AM
Police recover suspected getaway car from slaying


By KEVIN MORAN
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle



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Investigators have recovered a stolen Ford Taurus that they say was used by two men suspected in a failed carjacking that led to a woman's stabbing death last week as she tried to protect her baby.

Sheriff's deputies are "examining the car with a fine-toothed comb" as they seek evidence in last week's slaying of Tina Davila, Harris County sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Legg said today.

The car was found Monday in the parking lot of a Pasadena apartment complex, said Capt. John Martin. He said it probably was dumped soon after the stabbing of Davila, who was attacked on Wednesday outside a store in the 5600 block of Uvalde on the county's east side.

Authorities are still seeking Timoteo Rios, an illegal immigrant from Michoacan, Mexico, who was identified as the man who stabbed Davila.

Kennedy Escoto, who is charged with aggravated robbery, was arrested last week and is suspected of driving the gold Taurus at the time of the attack. Investigators say the pair had stolen the Taurus earlier and were using it when a security camera recorded them stealing beer from a convenience store a few minutes before Davila was stabbed.

Houston police found a 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on Friday that they believe the pair stole in Pasadena within hours after the stabbing.

The Monte Carlo was recovered in the 10100 block of Greenfork in southwest Houston, police said.

Davila, 39, was stabbed after pulling up to a store to pay her cellular phone bill. Surveillance video shows that her attacker got out of the Taurus, HPD investigators said.

Davila refused to give up her keys because her 4-month-old daughter was in her sport utility vehicle, police said. She was stabbed multiple times and died a short time later at a hospital.

The surveillance video led to the arrest of Escoto, 17.

Authorities asked that anyone with information on Rios call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Reporter Jennifer Leahy contributed to this report.

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