CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Around 3:30 Monday morning, Bee County Sheriff's Office received a series of mysterious 9-1-1 calls where the caller was whispering. Deputies were sent out to the Rock Ridge RV Park along Charco Road — in Tuleta, just north of Beeville — and came across a man, his girlfriend and her sister inside a car.
"On the way over here there was a vehicle on the side of the road with its flashers on, so one officer stopped to check on them and it turned out there were two females and a male subject, and the females were just really bloody," Bee County Sheriff Alden Southmayd said.
The man, 49-year-old James Eaton, was jailed for the stabbing. He was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on $100,000 bond for each count..
His girlfriend and her sister were treated and released from Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville. Detectives then began to question them about the stabbing.
According to Southmayd, the women told deputies that Eaton had stabbed them and may have had explosives outside of his RV.
"During the interview they mentioned to the officers that the suspect was keeping some explosives in a couple of containers under his trailer," he said.
The news had everyone evacuated from the area and deputies pulling back from the RV. The Bee County Sheriff's Department called on the Corpus Christi Police Department's Bomb Squad who arrived just before 1 p.m. and got to work quickly by detonating the the containers near the RV.
Southmayd told 3NEWS that there were no explosives found after the debris from the containers that were blown up and searched. As far as a motive for the stabbing, detectives say the two sisters told them that Eaton had simply turned on them and attacked for no apparent reason.
Digital director Ana Tamez contributed to this story.
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