{"id":355067,"date":"2026-06-30T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355067\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:18:13","slug":"smiling-teen-was-the-one-who-stabbed-caroline-pena-to-death-cops-reveal-along-with-a-tragic-new-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355067\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiling teen was the one who stabbed Caroline Pe\u00f1a to death, cops reveal \u2014 along with a tragic new twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amaya Cookie Diaz \u2013 the youngest of three women charged with butchering a mother of five in Texas<\/a> \u2013 was the one who wielded the knife during the horrific, broad-daylight attack, court documents obtained by The Post reveal.<\/p>\n

Cookie, 19, along with her sister Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and their 21-year-old friend Kyandra Renee Faz were each slapped with $5 million bonds on first-degree murder charges by a Texas judge Friday \u2013 after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed 32-year-old Caroline \u201cCaro\u201d Pe\u00f1a<\/a> during an argument in the small border city of Del Rio Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Faz told police that Pena had \u201carrived at her residence looking to start a fight,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Amaya Cookie Diaz under arrest for allegedly murdering Caroline Pe\u00f1a on June 25, 2026. YouTube\/Good Citizen<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Amaya Cookie Diaz was the one who actually used the knife to stab Pe\u00f1a (pictured). Facebook\/Caro Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage later obtained by investigators showed Pe\u00f1a\u2019s black Dodge pickup truck driving up to Faz\u2019s house, where Cookie and Kitty arrived shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

The video shows Cookie fly out of the passenger seat of the black Chrysler 300 and confront Pe\u00f1a \u2013 while wielding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Cookie is seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood then begins soaking her shirt, according to cops.<\/p>\n

Amaya Diaz, Kyandra Renee Fax and Kitty Mia Diaz were arrested in connection to the grisly murder. City of Del Rio Police Department<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Kitty and Faz jumped in \u2013 allegedly beating Pe\u00f1a up before running away, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1a was reportedly driven to a local hospital by her nephew. She succumbed to the stab wounds about 7 hours later, at around 9 p.m., at a hospital in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The three accused attackers each requested court-appointed attorneys during their court appearance Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amaya Cookie Diaz \u2013 the youngest of three women charged with butchering a mother of five in Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14551,85548,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-355067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-murders","tag-stabbings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355067","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=355067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}