Killer gets life in prison for stabbing Fort Worth woman over 10 times in 2017 murder
A Tarrant County jury has sentenced a Sansom Park man to life in prison for stabbing to death a woman in 2017 after she stopped at a convenience store in north Fort Worth.
Jurors found Victor Torres, 34, guilty of murder on Friday in Criminal District Court No. 2 in Fort Worth.
The jury sentenced Torres late Friday to life in prison for killing 36-year-old Tijuana Terry of Fort Worth on March 31, 2017.
Torres was arrested months after Terry was stabbed to death on the city’s north side.
Tijuana drove to a convenience store on Azle Avenue on March 31, 2017, and never returned home.
Store surveillance video obtained by her family shows Terry driving the truck and arriving at the store. Within seconds, the video shows, a man jumps into the passenger side of the truck and the truck leaves about 10:45 a.m. At the time, family members said the man was interviewed by police, but he was not arrested.
Tijuana Terry was pronounced dead about 11:30 a.m. in the 4900 block of Azle Avenue in the truck, which was found in a grassy area near the street.
She was stabbed more than 10 times while she fought off her attacker, her family has said.
“An animal did that to my daughter,” Sharon Terry told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a 2017 interview from her home as she sat with friends and family members.
