TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Name:  Diaz, Arturo Eleazar

TDCJ Number:  999345

Date of Birth:  12/27/1975

Date Received:  2/20/2000

Age (when Received):  24

Education Level (Highest Grade Completed):  7

Date of Offense:  04/03/1999

Age (at the time of Offense):  23

County:  Hidalgo

Race:  Hispanic

Gender:  Male

Hair Color:  Black

Height (in Feet and Inches):  5′ 8″

Weight (in Pounds):  200

Eye Color:  Brown

Native County:  Hidalgo

Native State:  Texas

Prior Occupation:  Laborer

Prior Prison Record:  #706353 on a 7-year sentence for Criminal Mischief and Theft; on 11/24/97 released on Mandatory Supervision.

Summary of Incident:  On 04/03/99, in the nighttime, in McAllen, Texas, Diaz and one co-defendant, murdered one male by stabbing him 94 times in the upper chest with a knife at the victim's apartment and stabbed another male, who was also at the apartment, two times in the face. Diaz and the co-defendant went to the apartment trying looking for drugs and also intended to rob the victim. Diaz and the co-defendant robbed the victim of an unknown amount of money and fled the scene by vehicle.

Co-Defendants:  Cardova, Jose Luis

Race and Gender of Victim:  (Race unknown) male