A 21-year-old woman has been arrested after Corpus Christi police investigated a violent assault that was captured on video and widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n
According to the Corpus Christi Police Department, officers became aware of the incident after a video depicting an assault began circulating online. The assault occurred on May 23 in the 300 block of Interstate 37 Access Road, near a Stripes convenience store just outside downtown Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n
Police said the victim did not initially report the incident.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the department’s Criminal Investigations Division launched an investigation and were able to identify both the female victim and the suspect.<\/p>\n
Investigators identified the suspect as Kelly Castillo, 21. Authorities obtained an arrest warrant charging Castillo with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.<\/p>\n
The Corpus Christi Police Department’s Gang Unit arrested Castillo on Tuesday, June 17, without incident.<\/p>\n
3NEWS has obtained the viral video that led to renewed attention surrounding the case. The footage appears to show a violent altercation in the parking lot area near the business.<\/p>\n
Police are continuing to investigate and are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at\u00a0361-886-2840.<\/p>\n
Individuals wishing to remain anonymous can provide tips through\u00a0Crime Stoppers by calling\u00a0888-TIPS (8477) or submitting information online.<\/p>\n
No additional details about the victim have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old woman has been arrested after Corpus Christi police investigated a violent assault that was captured on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,71399,122084,2459,122083],"class_list":["post-342406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-criminal-investigations-division","tag-kelly-castillo","tag-video","tag-violent-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}