{"id":402622,"date":"2026-08-10T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:02:12","slug":"man-accused-of-deadly-stabbing-in-dallas-arrested-in-mexico-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402622\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of deadly stabbing in Dallas arrested in Mexico, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who is accused of <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fatally stabbing<\/a> a woman and assaulting two children in north Dallas has been arrested in Mexico, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they were called to a disturbance around 6:40 a.m. on Sunday along the 8300 block of Skillman Street, near Lake Highlands High School. The department said its preliminary investigation revealed that Jesus Leal Huerta entered a residence and assaulted two minors before stabbing 35-year-old Daisy Moctezuma. Moctezuma died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Police said Leal Huerta was taken into custody later that evening in Mexico. He is now awaiting extradition and will be charged with murder and injury to a child when he is brought back. The department said additional charges may be filed as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with more information is asked to call Detective Adam Joslin by calling 214-671-4095 or by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/triple-stabbing-arrest-dallas-mexico-8-10-2026\/mailto:adam.joslin@dallaspolice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">adam.joslin@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who is accused of fatally stabbing a woman and assaulting two children in north Dallas has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,4081],"class_list":["post-402622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402622","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=402622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}