Monday, August 16, 2010

San Antonio, TX: Boyfriend held after woman's body found

By Michelle Mondo and Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News
Web Posted: 08/16/2010 12:00 CDT


COURTESY PHOTO
Armando Charles, 50, is suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend, whose body was found alongside a Southwest Side roadway Saturday evening.
Diana Conde's daughter Vicky said her family repeatedly had told her mother to leave an alleged abusive relationship with her boyfriend.
“I never thought it would go to this point where he would completely take her out,” Vicky Conde, 26, said on Sunday, the day after learning about her mother's death.

On Saturday, around 2:30 p.m., a passer-by spotted Diana Conde's sunburned body in the 7500 block of New Laredo Highway and flagged down a police officer. Conde, 44, was clad only in a pair of underwear and sandals. Her clothing was found nearby, strewn across the area, police said.

Conde suffered severe head trauma and was struck by a blunt object or tire, according to a police report.

Her boyfriend, Armando Charles, 50, was arrested later that day, accused of hitting her with her own car then leaving her on the side of the road. He remains jailed on a murder charge with bail set at $350,000.

The couple was known to fight, Vicky Conde said, which is why she thought little of a shouting match that woke her up at 2:35 a.m. Saturday.

“How dare you raise your hand to me in my own house,” she heard her mother say to Charles, an arrest warrant affidavit states.

It was the last time she would hear her mother's voice.

The family realized something was amiss when around 11 a.m. Saturday Diana Conde's car was found on Rustleaf and Military Drive but she still hadn't turned up. They filed a missing person's report.

Meanwhile, homicide detectives processing the scene received information about the vehicle and the missing person's report because it matched the description of the body found on the roadway.

No comments:

Post a Comment