Man stabbed to death during knock-down drag-out fight over stolen 'pair of hair clippers,' police say

A Texas antheral was arrested this week aft a astir yearlong effort to find the fishy successful a fatal stabbing, Lone Star State constabulary say.

Robert Adrian Aparicio, 34, stands accused of 1 number of murder successful the archetypal degree, according to Bexar County tribunal records.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Jan. 12, extracurricular of a residence connected Montezuma Street connected the westbound broadside of San Antonio. There, responding officers with the San Antonio Police Department recovered Christopher Renteria, 39, lying successful the street, bleeding, and suffering from aggregate stab wounds to his thorax and body. The unfortunate was rushed to a adjacent infirmary wherever helium fought for his life.

For the adjacent fewer months, the stabbing fishy was wanted connected a lone complaint of aggravated assault, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Then, connected May 26, Renteria succumbed to his injuries. The man's decease was ruled a homicide. The transgression number was upgraded.

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And investigators had a name.

While being transported to the hospital, Renteria told a constabulary serviceman that a antheral named "Robert" had stabbed him, according to an affidavit obtained by San Antonio-based ABC affiliate KSAT.

But that sanction was astir each instrumentality enforcement could ascertain from the unfortunate himself, constabulary say. Soon aft being admitted to the hospital, Renteria went into cardiac arrest. That cardiac apprehension led to a important encephalon wounded that subsequently barred the unfortunate from further communicating "in immoderate way," according to the affidavit.

Still, determination were different sources of evidence.

At the country of the crime, 2 witnesses said they had witnessed the stabbing. Both witnesses appeared to buoy what Renteria had said — saying idiosyncratic named "Rob" oregon "Robert" was the assailant.

In relaying their mentation of events, the witnesses told a detective the attacker stabbed the unfortunate "over an statement involving a brace of hairsbreadth clippers" that had been stolen from Renteria.

As the statement became violent, Renteria allegedly smashed retired the driver's broadside model of Aparicio's reddish Ford Ranger.

Then, the suspect allegedly went to his truck, grabbed a knife, and chased Renteria down until helium stumbled and fell successful the street.

After the fall, Aparicio took the accidental to usage the weapon and stabbed the unfortunate implicit and over, according to instrumentality enforcement. After the stabbing, the suspect fled successful the reddish truck, constabulary allege.

Surveillance cameras successful the vicinity caught the incidental and the aftermath, according to the constabulary department. Those videos identified the alleged slayer and showed his apparel successful detail, the affidavit claims. And, possibly astir fortuitously for investigators, 1 of the videos contains audio of 1 of the witnesses speechmaking aloud the bulk of the Minnesota licence sheet affixed to the Ford Ranger.

On Nov. 20, a detective obtained a photograph of a antheral matching the suspect's description, constabulary claim. In that image, the antheral is allegedly seen wearing galore of the aforesaid articles of covering from the time of the stabbing, portion loading histrion limbs into the furniture of the reddish truck.

Police past identified the flat analyzable wherever the landscaping had occurred, contacted the wide manager of the complex, and obtained accusation astir the antheral successful the photograph, according to the affidavit. As it turns out, the antheral responded to a Craigslist advertisement and instrumentality enforcement soon had the tree-trimmer's telephone number.

After that, investigators determined the fig belonged to Aparicio, according to the affidavit.

On Nov. 21, the 2 witnesses from the nighttime successful question allegedly identified the suspect successful a photograph display.

On Thursday, helium was arrested during the aboriginal greeting hours.

Aparicio is presently being detained successful the Bexar County Jail connected $350,000 bond.