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Man arrested in death of woman whose throat cut


A man charged early today in the savage slashing death of an elderly woman in her southwest Houston townhome apparently did not know his victim, detectives said.

Cedrick Bernard Carraway,20, of the 15200 block of Grayridge, was booked in the county jail on a charge of capital murder, records show. He is accused of stabbing to death Lois M. Hunter,69, while robbing her Sunday.

Hunter's throat was cut so severely that she was almost decapitated, said Harris County Sheriff's Lt. Danny Billingsley. She also was stabbed numerous times on her torso, Billingsley said.

Detectives are not sure how Carraway got inside Hunter's townhome in the 2900 block of Meadow Grass Lane, but suspect he might have gone in when the woman stepped out to get her newspaper Sunday.

There is no evidence to suggest Hunter was sexually assaulted, but the violence she suffered was vicious, detectives said.

'Just the brutality of it suggests a lot of anger for some reason, ' Billingsley said. 'There's no indication he knew her at all.'



This was my Aunts murder!