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Marcial Chavira arrested in nightclub knifing
Published November 20, 2009
A 31-year-old Del Rio man has been arrested and charged with felony assault in connection with a bar fight that left another man critically wounded, police say.
Marcial Chavira, 205 E. Chapoy St., was arrested about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Del Rio Police Department Capt. Bill Rattay.
Rattay told the Del Rio News-Herald today that Chavira has been charged with the offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony.
Rattay said DRPD detectives arrested Chavira for nearly gutting Eric Espinoza, 22, during a fight that reportedly broke out at Diamond Lil's nightclub, 105 Garner Drive.
Rattay said police officers were dispatched to Diamond Lil's about 12:45 a.m. Thursday after they were notified by police dispatchers of a “disturbance in progress” at the nightclub.
Rattay said police dispatchers were told that “eight to 10 people” were involved in the fight.
When the officers arrived in the parking lot of the Diamond Lil's, “they observed several male and female subjects running out of the nightclub,” Rattay said.
When the officers went inside the club, they found two men next to one of the pool tables. Rattay said one of the men was identified as Chavira, and the other as Chavira's brother, Adrian Chavira.
Rattay said the brothers told police that they were inside the nightclub playing pool.
“Marcial Chavira claims that a man walked up to Adrian and struck Adrian in the face, and that Marcial then felt something hard strike him in the back of the head,” Rattay said.
He said as other officers arrived to assist, they spoke with the Diamond Lil's shift manager, who told them that she had seen a fight break out near the pool tables and had called 9-1-1.
Rattay said the shift manager also observed and recovered a knife on the floor near the pool tables.
He said the shift manager also recovered several bloody pool cues from the nightclub floor.
As police began their investigation inside the nightclub, Rattay said they received information about another man who had also been involved.
Police were told that man was behind the Kaiser Eye Care Clinic, 106 Miers St., but when they arrived, they found blood on the ground, but no person.
“We then received a call that EMS was responding to a residence in the 300 block of Mary Lou Drive. When the officers arrived, they found Eric Espinoza laying on the floor inside the residence. He had sustained a severe abdominal wound, and his intestines were partially hanging out,” Rattay said.
Rattay said Espinoza was transported to the emergency room at Val Verde Regional Medical Center, then taken by air ambulance to a hospital in San Antonio.
“We have no idea what originally started the fight,” Rattay said.
He noted that police detectives, under the direction of DRPD Capt. Antonio Becerra, are continuing their investigation of the incident.
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