A. Texas According to the police, the man confessed to killing his elderly aunt who tried to throw him out of her house.

Adrian Joe Padilla, 24, is charged with capital murder and tampering/fabricating evidence with intent to injure a human corpse. Aubrey Police Department on Tuesday..

Police said the alarm prompted Mary Inez Jacinto, 71, to request a welfare check from her sister after she did not respond to calls and texts from concerned family members.

When officers arrived at the property north of Dallas Monday evening, they found the suspect in the backyard of the home. They later made the horrifying discovery that her elderly aunt was “wrapped in blankets” under “a pile of dirt”.

Police said the victim’s body was found with “stab wounds to his abdomen and feet” Fox4News. According to the report, Jacinto had retired after only a few years as a Dallas ISD employee.

The aunt and nephew allegedly had an argument about her release the night before the body was found. Denton Record-Chronicle.

The newspaper reported that Padilla told police that during the argument, her aunt threatened her with a kitchen knife, and then Padilla punched her, knocking her to the ground.

While the 71-year-old man was unconscious, his nephew then carried his body into the bedroom and allegedly stabbed him twice in the stomach. Fox4News.

According to the report, Padilla told police that he took a nap while she remained in the bedroom with her injuries. Record-Daily.

During this sleep, he reportedly went to his aunt’s car in the garage and tried to escape the house, but her aunt found him and allegedly hit him repeatedly, causing him to “fall asleep.”

“He tried to stab me, so I stabbed him in the back,” he told police officers after the suspect was arrested.

As of Tuesday, Padilla was being held in the Denton County Jail on $20 million bail.

Aubrey Police Chief Richard Brooks said Fox4News: “A family member informed us that they had not been able to reach the victim for several hours. “They are a close-knit family.”

A former colleague, George Rangel, said: Fox4News: “There are not enough words to describe the impact this woman had not only on her family, but also on her work and colleagues.

“This is a terrible loss. Terrible loss. He was one of a kind.”