Texas Man Charged With Capital Murder After 3 Found Dead On Padre Island
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Three women were found dead in the costal resort community of South Padre Island, now a 23-year-old Texas man has been charged with capital murder for the killings.
A judge on Monday ordered Yordi Barthelemy held without bond on the murder charge stemming from the fatal shootings of the women at an island condominium Saturday. He is also charged with assault family violence.
The dead women, ages 46, 47 and 65, were members of the same family and from the Houston area, according to police. Authorities have not released their names and did not answer questions Sunday or Monday about their connection to Barthelemy or a possible motive for the killings.
An attorney for Barthelemy could not be immediately identified. South Padre Island authorities said he would be transported to the Cameron County Jail, but he was not listed in jail records Monday afternoon.
South Padre Island is a community on a barrier island of the same name, off the southern coast of Texas near the Mexican border.
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