Texas man arrested for murder of two women and kidnapping of baby in New Mexico Park – Crime Online

A 26-year-old Texas man was arrested Monday in Abilene for the murder of two New Mexico women and the kidnapping of a 10-month-old child.

A 5-year-old girl was also seriously injured with a gunshot wound to the head in the Friday afternoon incident at Ned Houk Park in Clovis, New Mexico.

Clovis Police Chief Roy Rice said the baby girl, Eleia Maria Torres, was found safe and taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Baby Eleia and the 5-year-old belonged to Samantha Cisneros, one of two women shot dead near a minivan in the park on Friday, CrimeOnline reported. The other woman was identified as Taryn Allen; both women were 23 and both were from Texico, a city about ten miles east of Clovis, right on the Texas state line.

The suspect in the case, Alek Isaiah Collins, was arrested at a home in Abilene, more than 250 miles from Clovis, and the baby was also found there, Clovis Deputy Chief Trevor Thron said. He is currently being held in the Taylor County Jail on charges of aggravated burglary and aggravated assault on a public servant while he awaits extradition to New Mexico, KTAB reported.

Quentin Ray, district attorney for New Mexico’s 9th Judicial Circuit, told reporters he had approved two murder charges, two child molestation charges and one kidnapping charge against Collins.

Thron told reporters that investigators have found no evidence of a relationship between Collins and Cisneros and Allen, but that they are still investigating. A motive has not been discovered.

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(Featured image: Eleia Maria Torres/Clovis Police Department)