Suspect tells Fort Worth police he unintentionally wounded man after rebuffing alleged sexual advances, affidavit reveals
A suspect is in custody after the Fort Worth Police Department said he told them he may have fatally stabbed someone more than an hour prior late Saturday night.
The department said officers were called to a reported assault along Lillian Street near North Sylvania Avenue around 10:30 p.m. They found a man who appeared to have been stabbed. While he was provided medical care, the man died at the scene. As of publication, he has not been identified.
Police said the suspect was not located at the scene. However, the department said one of its officers was approached by another man along Northeast 28th Street – about a mile and a half away – around 11:50 p.m. That man, police said, told the office he believed he may have stabbed someone.
The suspect, who was identified as 39-year-old Edward Trevino on Wednesday, was detained and then brought back to the crime scene, per police. Trevino was eventually charged with capital murder.
According to an affidavit obtained by CBS News Texas, Trevino approached an officer working an unrelated call and claimed the victim tried to solicit him for sex. In a later interview, the affidavit says Trevino told officers he had been using meth and had not slept or eaten for days before the incident, spending most of the day at a park nearby trying to sober up. Trevino also claimed the victim had offered him a ride in his pickup truck, provided Trevino with food and beer, and made the advances that Trevino said made him uncomfortable.
Trevino, the affidavit claims, also asked to be taken to his sister's home, but that the man refused to do so. Trevino also claimed the man tried to force sexual contact, and Trevino said he pulled out his own knife to try and scare him out of the truck, and he reportedly admitted to telling the man to throw his phone out the window and that Trevino intended to take the truck. A struggle reportedly ensued, and Trevino said he believes he may have unintentionally wounded the man with the knife at that point. Trevino said after the incident, he ran through the neighborhood, yelling for help and telling others that the man allegedly tried to rape him.
The affidavit also notes that Trevino told officers he got rid of the knife and believed that it slid into a storm drain.
Police, in the affidavit, said they did not believe Trevino's life was in immediate danger and did not believe that deadly force was necessary in this incident. The notes from police in the affidavit said Trevino had the ability to leave the truck through the front right passenger door or window, which was completely open. The police notes also state investigators do not believe Trevino had the legal right to try and take the truck.