HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — New grizzly particulars have been revealed in courtroom about how officers tracked down a homicide suspect from a lethal bike path incident.
Aaron Sheehan, 40, is charged with homicide within the deadly stabbing of 77-year-old Anival Ortiz.
Based on the Houston Police Division, officers responded to the stabbing name at round 5:55 a.m. on Aug. 8 at 123 North Drennan Avenue, the place they discovered Ortiz with a stab wound.
Police say the 77-year-old was taken to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
Sheehan was arrested days later and scheduled to look in courtroom.
Nonetheless, on his courtroom date, he wasn’t there. The decide stated it was as a result of he was within the psychological well being unit.
Throughout the listening to, the decide laid out a few of the particulars from the lethal incident.
“The complainant was on his bicycle and rode to his place of job and collapsed,” the decide stated. “His coworker was there and noticed him collapse and famous he was bleeding and had been severely injured.”
After officers arrived, the decide stated they noticed a blood path. They adopted it and located surveillance video from close by companies, with one in all them, the decide stated displaying the stabbing caught on digicam.
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Investigators recognized Sheehan, who was seen boarding a METRO transit shortly after the incident, in surveillance video that was launched on Aug. 8.
Prosecutors advised the decide about Sheehan’s prolonged felony historical past, together with a number of costs from Georgia, and two others in Harris County.
Final 12 months, paperwork present he was charged with aggravated assault with a lethal weapon after he hit an individual with a metallic pole. Sheehan pleaded responsible to a lesser theft cost in March, and he served solely three months in jail after the settlement.
He minimize the take care of the DA’s workplace, regardless of his documented felony historical past. Two months later, he was charged with homicide.
A violent previous and proof from this case is why the decide agreed to set a excessive bond.
“It is a fairly violent state of affairs and he is acquired sufficient historical past and is transient,” the decide defined. “So, bail is ready at one million {dollars}. I am not granting a private bond.”
Sheehan is scheduled to look in courtroom once more Thursday. It is unclear if he’ll be there.
His legal professional says he was capable of meet with him, however the decide stated he is within the psychological well being unit.
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