Lucinda Díaz is accused of killing her husband with bullets

• Lucinda Díaz had said that her husband, Craig Chastain, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head
• However, the authorities say that the woman killed him in the middle of a domestic fight
• Díaz, 36, was arrested and charged for the murder of her husband in the city of Edinburg

Lucinda Díaz, 36, was formally charged in Texas with having shot her husband to death in the middle of an alleged domestic dispute. The woman is already detained in the prison of the Hidalgo County, charged with a felony charge in the death of 31-year-old Craig Chastain.

Díaz is the protagonist of a unique criminal history since the woman, when the events occurred, told the agents of the Homicide Division of the Edinburg Police Department (EPD) that her husband, Craig Chastain, had shot himself in the middle of what she called a «stupid minor lawsuit» by the couple.

Lucinda Díaz, a case of domestic violence?

The Texas State Penal Code It details that the murder charge, like the one faced by Lucinda Díaz, carries a penalty of 20 to 99 years in prison for anyone found guilty of that crime after facing trial. The events occurred at 9:28 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2020, when the couple had barely been married for six months.

The complexity of the case also has overtones of tragedy, since when the events occurred Lucinda Díaz was four months pregnant and the woman allegedly exploded against her husband Craig Chastain when he threatened to abandon her with everything and her child. According to the EPD, that was the incident that sparked the violence.

Inconsistencies in the statement

First, Lucinda Díaz tried to hide the truth from the EDP agents, who discovered several inconsistencies in her version and arrested her the day after the events occurred. The story that follows is contained in the legal documents of the case, consulted by MundoHispánico in Texas.

That Saturday, September 5, the EPD emergency number received a call in which a woman reported the suicide attempt of a man in the Villages at Sugar Road apartment complex, 5228 South Sugar Road, from where a woman in the state of out of shock he called the authorities.

The wife changes the version

The first officer who arrived on the scene wrote in his report that the woman who received him, later identified as Lucinda Díaz, told him that her husband had broken a vase on his head, but then she changed her version saying that it had been a bullet.

According to the woman, according to the first officer, she did not see the moment when her husband shot himself, but found him wounded. Faced with the contradictions of the woman, the patrolman asked Díaz to leave the house to be able to check the place well. The officer then requested support from other agents of the corporation.

Lucinda Díaz and the crime scene

Before the other EPD patrols arrived, the agent inspected the apartment and detailed that a white, Caucasian man was lying face down in front of the front door of the house and next to the sofa, in a large pool of blood around his head.

When he reviewed the deceased today, the agent noticed two wounds, one on the back almost on the nape and the other on the head. There began the doubts towards the version that Lucinda Díaz told. Then other EPD agents came to the house and interviewed the troubled woman, who again supported the same version that she had given to the first patrolman.

The two wounds on the victim’s head

Lucinda Díaz confirmed to the EPD Homicide Division officers who arrived at her home that her husband, with whom she was only six months married, had first tried to commit suicide by hitting himself on the head with a glass vase and then hitting a bullet. The woman identified the man as Craig Chastain.

Calmly, the EPD Homicide Division agents listened to the woman’s version and did not immediately press charges despite acknowledging that her story had several inconsistencies. At the autopsy, the medical examiners found that Chastain had two serious injuries.

A bullet in the never of Lucinda Díaz’s husband

According to the autopsy report that Homicide Division agents received in the death of Craig Chastain, the man had died of a gunshot wound to the lower part of his head, almost reaching the back of his neck. An odd position for someone who wants to kill himself, according to police officers in the case against Lucinda Díaz.

The second wound was on the top of the head, caused by the blow with the glass vase. In recount of the scene where the body was found, officers said they found the Smith & Wesson pistol with which he allegedly killed himself, about three feet from the body, and the barrel of the gun in the opposite direction. corpse.

«An unimportant nonsense»

The agents noticed that in an armchair in the living room of the house there were several folded articles of clothing and all were from the deceased today. The clothes were arranged in a pile. In her testimony, the woman assured that she had argued with her partner «over a trivial nonsense», and things escalated to shouting.

According to Lucinda Díaz, in the middle of the argument her husband Craig Chastain threatened to leave her permanently and left the house. The woman told the authorities that when the man threatened to leave her, she just went to the room of the house and opened the door, not wanting to argue anymore.

A large pool of blood

Lucinda Díaz said that at one point she heard as if something was breaking, she thought that maybe her husband was hitting the walls, and then everything went silent. The woman said in her first statement that after a moment of silence, she left her room and that was when she found her husband wounded in a pool of blood around his head.

Then, alarmed, she took the phone and called the authorities to ask for help for her husband Craig Chastain, who was already dead when the first officer arrived. Homicide Division agents noticed upon arrival that the woman was sweating profusely and had traces of blood on one hand.

Prosecutors file charges against Lucinda Díaz

Based on the inconsistencies in her statement, the EDP Homicide Division agents decided to issue an arrest warrant against Lucinda Amalia Díaz, her full name, for the shooting murder of her husband Craig Chastain and the woman was arrested. Sunday, September 6, 2020

Due to her state of pregnancy, the judge who received Lucinda Díaz’s case decided to grant the woman the right to be released from the county jail on a bond of $ 50,000 to face her trial in freedom. In addition, the Hidalgo County Prosecutor’s Office has since devoted itself to studying the case against the woman.

Lucinda Díaz supports her version from prison

Since the arrest of Lucinda Díaz, the woman maintains until now that she did not kill him and that everything happened as she told the authorities. EPD officials say that the place where the man was shot is impossible for someone who wants to commit suicide and that no one tries to kill themselves by hitting the head with a vase.

Lucinda Díaz was formally charged on Thursday, March 18, 2021, for the murder of her husband, Craig Chastain, by a gunshot to the head. The arrest warrant for the Homicide Division agents details that the woman’s «inconsistencies in the statement» are the basis for her accusation, which returned her to the Hidalgo County jail.

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