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    Cavalas Prater Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity in 2015 TX Murder of 79-Year-Old Su-Jung Teng


    Su-Jung Teng, 79, and suspect, Cavalas Prater


    Suspect arrested in fatal stabbing of Sharpstown woman

    HOUSTON – Houston police say they have identified the man who killed an elderly woman at her Sharpstown home last week.

    Cavalas Prater, 35, was taken into custody over the weekend for assault on a family member. During a police investigation, officers were able to connect the man to the murder of Su-Jung Teng, 79.

    Police said it was around 5:30 p.m. on April 29 when the suspect went into a backyard in the 7800 block of Hiawatha and attacked the victim, who was gardening.

    The victim's husband heard the attack and ran outside to try and fight the suspect, but the man fatally stabbed Su-Jung. The suspect then fled the scene.

    The husband was not hurt.

    Prater now faces a capital murder charge, court records show.

    Records show Prater has previous arrests for trespassing and possession of marijuana.

    HOUSTON – An elderly woman tending to her garden was stabbed to death in Sharpstown Wednesday night. Her husband was attacked when he tried to help her.

    It happened around 5:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of Hiawatha not far from Bellaire and Fondren.

    The victim, identified as 79-year-old Su-Jung Teng, was in her backyard when her husband heard her screaming. He ran outside to find a man choking his wife.

    The husband tried to fight off the suspect with a golf club, but the man dragged the woman into the home where he fatally stabbed her with a pair of scissors, officers at the scene said.

    The suspect then fled the residence through the backyard.

    A detailed description of the suspect has not been released, and a motive for the crime is still under investigation. Police at the scene initially believed it was a possible robbery.

    http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime...oman/26910363/
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    'Crazy, demented' homeless man charged in 79-year-old woman's murder

    HOUSTON -- A homeless man now faces capital murder charges for allegedly strangling and stabbing a 79 year-old woman inside her southwest Houston home.

    Cavalos Prater, 35, stands accused of killing Su-Jung Teng, a grandmother who was attacked while gardening in her Sharpstown backyard. Teng was dragged from her garage and into a bathroom as her husband tried to defend her by beating her attacker with a golf club and a broom handle.

    Investigators said they still weren't sure about a motive, but they believe the victim was chosen randomly. Prater loitered behind a convenience store around the block from Teng's home, police said.

    "I believe this to be a random act of violence by a crazy, demented person," said Robert Klementich, a Houston homicide detective.

    Investigators said they cracked the case after Prater was arrested for allegedly choking his mother inside her northeast Houston apartment. His mother's roommate fought off the attack, chased after Prater on his bicycle and helped a patrol officer arrest him.

    The officer noticed Prater wore a bloody shirt matching the description of the suspect in Teng's murder three days earlier, investigators said.

    "After the defendant was taken into custody, the patrol officer -- on his own initiative – believing that that shirt would be crucial for further evidence of any crime, took that shirt and tagged it into our property room along with the knife," Klementich said.

    The homeless suspect has a history of mental illness and petty crime arrests for minor offenses, from breaking into a vending machine to burglarizing a motor vehicle to cashing in a fraudulent lottery ticket. An assault charge is the only violent crime on his arrest record in Texas.

    Neighbors expressed relief the accused killer had been arrested.

    "Oh, thank God," said Rodney Busmire as he drove through the Sharpstown neighborhood. "It's a blessing. I know everyone will be a little bit more at ease around here now.

    "God, it feels absolutely much, much better," said DeCarla Conner, who lives in the same area as the crime. "Because it was a random attack."

    Teng's husband, who tried in vain to save his wife from her attacker, said nothing as he stood next to the detectives at a news conference announcing the arrest – a silent tribute to the police who arrested his wife's accused killer.

    http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime...oman/26910363/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    MAN NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY IN WOMAN'S MURDER

    HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The grisly killing of a 79-year-old woman attacked in her own backyard shocked her southwest Houston neighborhood. Now, close to two years later, the man accused of killing her has been found not guilty.

    In April 2015, Su-Jung Teng was choked and beaten with a golf club while she was gardening at her home in the 7800 block of Hiawatha. Her husband rushed out of the house and tried to fight off her attacker. Detectives say the killer overpowered the husband and then dragged the wife inside the home, where he repeatedly stabbed her with scissors until she died.

    Cavalas Prater, 37, was charged with capital murder. On Wednesday, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

    http://abc13.com/news/man-not-guilty...anity/1744751/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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