A mother of two was identified as having been beheaded by a sword last week and the father of one of her children was charged with vicious murder.
The family of 27-year-old Karina Castro has confirmed that she was beheaded in the street outside her home in broad daylight on Thursday by a man with a sword, KGO-TV reported.
The man who killed her according to the police is Jose Raphael Solano Landaeta, 33, the father of Castro’s 1-year-old daughter.
In the day before the murder, Snapchat messages between the couple got very contentious, according to ABC 7.
Castro threatens to tell the world about Solano’s criminal record that includes a rape conviction involving a minor. He calls her “snitch lip” and warns her “F*** around and find out.”
Castro fires back, “U wanna put a target on my back, ur homies gunna kno the real u” and threatens to expose his sexual relationship with another man. She adds, “Dude, go head try and take my a** out.”
Just hours later, the attack occurred at 11:50 am on Laurel Street and Magnolia Avenue in San Carlos.– located about 25 miles south of San Francisco, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department.
“The head was underneath the car, and she was laying in the back of the car — just severed,” neighbor Chapel Thorborne told local radio station KGO. “And they covered her up.”
“[Law-enforcement] arrived within minutes and found an obviously deceased female in the street in that area,” said Lt. Eamonn Allen during a press conference Thursday. “They began to work the scene and shortly thereafter, the male suspect arrived back at the scene and was quickly detained by sheriff’s deputies. He was later placed under arrest for homicide.”
Solano is reported to have been violent with Castro in the past and her family says she got a restraining order against him earlier this year, but she kept seeing him.
Solano is currently being held for murder in San Carlos.
a GoFundMe for Karina has already raised over $55,000.00 to help with the financial burden her family has endured.
