A Texas guy, suspected in a 2021 chilly case, used to be arrested final week for the fatal stabbing of a sufferer in Austin earlier than being launched on bond 4 days after he used to be booked into prison.
Mithovar Christopher Antoine Jr., now 22, is accused of fatally stabbing Nikolas Martinez, 23, close to the sufferer’s condo advanced in South Austin in July 2021, consistent with Fox 7.
Martinez used to be taking part in video video games together with his nephew at the day of the incident when he took a ruin to take laundry out of his condo advanced’s communal facility earlier than he used to be stabbed.
He then referred to as 911 to record that he were stabbed and drove himself to a close-by fuel station for lend a hand, the place he later succumbed to his accidents.
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Mithovar Christopher Antoine Jr., now 22, is accused of fatally stabbing Nikolas Martinez, 23, in July 2021. (Bell County Prison)
Martinez’s folks mentioned two years in the past they have been disenchanted with the lack of expertise disclosed about who killed their son.
“We all know not anything’s going to convey [him] again,” Martinez’s father, Martin Martinez, informed Fox 7. “Not anything’s gonna make it higher, however simply no longer understanding is simply killing us.”
“We expect it used to be one thing random that simply took place, and we do not know why,” Martinez’s mom, Wendy Martinez, informed the opening. “So if any one noticed the rest, simply come ahead.”
This June, Austin Police won an nameless tip pronouncing they’d witnessed Antoine Jr. stabbing Martinez close to a South Austin condo advanced, consistent with an arrest warrant, Fox 7 reported.
This June, Austin Police won an nameless tip pronouncing they’d witnessed Antoine Jr. stabbing Martinez close to a South Austin condo advanced. (iStock)
Police completed some other seek warrant and came upon the suspect were in search of information articles associated with stabbings in Austin simply days after Martinez’s demise.
Regulation enforcement discovered Antoine Jr. in Temple final week, and he used to be arrested and booked into the Bell County Prison. A pass judgement on set his bond at $150,000, and he used to be bonded out of prison 4 days later.
Bell County officers informed Fox 7 the suspect used to be launched with out being extradited to Travis County.
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Police completed a seek warrant and came upon Antoine Jr. were in search of information articles associated with stabbings in Austin simply days after Martinez’s demise. (Getty Pictures)
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Antoine Jr. used to be arrested for unauthorized use of a automobile and housebreaking of a habitation within the two years earlier than Martinez’s demise, courtroom paperwork display, consistent with Fox 7. He bonded out of prison two months earlier than Martinez’s homicide.
Since he used to be out on probation, Bell County may just revoke probation and search further warrants for his arrest, which might land him again in prison.
A grand jury in Travis County will nonetheless want to indict Antoine Jr. for Martinez’s homicide.
