2017-04-03
Amarillo police investigate homicide after woman killed in Southeast Amarillo | KVII
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Amarillo police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found with an injury inside an Amarillo home. She later died.Police said officers were sent to 1212 S.E. 7th Ave. just after 8:30 p.m. on some type of assault Monday night.According to APD, t
50-year-old Dalia Jo Soria was found suffering from an injury in a Southeast Amarillo home Monday night. She later died at the hospital. Police are investigating the incident as a homicide. (ABC 7 Amarillo - Nataziah Gipson)
AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — Amarillo police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found with an injury inside an Amarillo home. She later died.
Police said officers were sent to 1212 S.E. 7th Ave. just after 8:30 p.m. on "some type of assault" Monday night.
According to APD, the woman, identified as 50-year-old Dalia Jo Soria, had an "obvious injury to a portion of her upper body."
Police said Soria was taken to the hospital. She died at the hospital later.
The Special Crimes Unit was called to investigate. An autopsy will be performed in Lubbock Wednesday morning.
Anyone with information about Soria's death is asked to call APD's Special Crimes Unit at (806)378-9468.
This marks the second homicide in less than one week in Amarillo.
source:: East Amarillo woman is city's third homicide this year
Amarillo Police say Dalia Jo Soria, 50, was the victim of a homicide Monday night in east Amarillo.
Officers were sent to 1212 SE 7th St. just after 8:30 p.m. Monday on a call that reported some type of an assault had taken place. When officers arrived they found Soria inside the residence with what they termed an “obvious injury to her upper body.”
Soria was transported to a hospital where APD said she died as a result of the injuries. An autopsy was ordered by Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones, and it was scheduled to be performed today in Lubbock.
Soria’s death is Amarillo’s third homicide of the year, according to APD Sergeant Brent Barbee, as well as the second homicide in less than a week. Gregory Lynn Battee Jr., 21, was shot and killed last week in north Amarillo, and Jacob Isacc Valdez was murdered on Jan. 3, the city’s first homicide of 2017.
On Tuesday, by coincidence, it was announced that two men have been indicted by a Potter County Grand Jury on murder charges in the death of Valdez.
From 2009 through 2015, Amarillo has averaged nine homicides per year within the city limits, according to the police department’s annual reports. APD said that in 2016 there were 15 homicides within the city, and APD was called upon to assist in the investigation of four additional homicides last year in Potter County.
APD’s Special Crimes Unit is now in charge of the investigation into Soria’s death. No arrests have been made, and no suspects have been named by police.
According to a search of public records, there were no results for Soria owning the property where she was fatally injured. Public records from Randall County showed that Soria had been arrested five times since 2012, including five charges of possession of drug paraphernalia.
APD is asking anyone with information about Soria and the circumstances surrounding her death to call Special Crimes at 806-378-9468 or to submit a tip online at www.amapolice.org.