Details emerge in Fort Bend slaying at man’s home
18-year-old allegedly shot the victim because a friend said he’d raped her
The alleged rape of a friend led an 18-year-old woman to fatally shoot a man in his Cinco Rancharea home in March, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained Wednesday.
Law enforcement officers arrested the woman, Monserrat Carrillo-Castilla, on Sunday on suspicion of killing 37-year-old Willie Honable. She was being held in the Fort Bend County jail with bail set at $200,000, court records show. An attorney for the suspect could not be reached Wednesday.
According to the affidavit, Honable was slain hours after he showed rooms in a home he had leased to the suspect and her female friend and offered “to ‘pimp’ them out.”
A fired projectile recovered from the crime scene led police to a 9mm handgun believed to have been used in both Honable’s killing and an aggravated assault in February, the affidavit shows.
In April, a friend of the suspect in that alleged assault told police he knew about the March murder.
Two or three days after Honable’s death, the friend said, he met Carrillo-Castilla to smoke marijuana. She appeared upset and said she had shot a man, according to the statement of the friend, who gave this account:
Carrillo-Castilla explained that a man had picked up her and a friend and taken them to his house in the Cinco Ranch section of Fort Bend County. After they left, her friend had texted her saying the man had raped her.
The 18-year-old Missouri City resident returned to his house, the affidavit continued, “and they were sitting on a couch when she decided to ask the male if he likes massages ... she gave the male a massage and then shot him.”
An investigation corroborated much of the story, according to the affidavit filed by investigators with the Fort Bend County Sheriff ’s Office.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the home around 5 p.m. on March 6 after a 24-year-old woman, who said she had known Honable for more than five years, called 911 to report finding him fatally shot.
Investigators found Honable’s body partially on the floor, a pocket inside out, his head on the couch in a pool of blood. He appeared to have been sitting at the end of a beige sectional facing the television, with a TV tray and what appeared to be a bowl of cereal nearby. Police detected no sign of forced entry.
Honable’s cause of death was later listed as “gunshot
“(Willie Honable) was an aspiring hip hop artist with a golden tongue. He thought fast and on his feet, loved to make people laugh, and he engaged people from coast to coast as he chased his dream.” From Honable’s online obituary
wounds of the head and torso,” according to online Harris County medical examiner records.
Other evidence included Honable’s phone, which showed text messages between him and Carrillo-Castilla about meeting up, investigators wrote.
Surveillance video at an Inntown Suites shows Carrillo-Castilla and the friend being picked up in a Chrysler 300, then returning, then Carrillo-Castilla leaving again in the Chrysler with a basket of clothes. Video from a surveillance camera at a neighbor’s house shows Carrillo-Castilla, who is 5-foot-5 and 110 pounds, leaving Honable’s home around 9:44 p.m. in the car, investigators wrote.
Carrillo-Castilla declined media requests on the advice of her attorney, said Caitlin Espinosa, a spokeswoman at the sheriff’s office. Espinosa said the office could not comment on the case, citing an ongoing investigation.
A woman who said she was Carrillo-Castilla’s mother, Veronica DeDios, maintained her daughter’s innocence.
“She’s not that kind of person,” DeDios said, explaining that she was sweet and always talking about how she could help other people. “I’m in shock.”
Honable was “an aspiring rapper” known as Kaos, according to an online crowdfunding page that a user identified as his mother had launched to ask for donations after his death. Proceeds were to go toward funeral arrangements and the care of his 8-year-old son.
A photo of Honable posted there shows him shirtless and muscular, with long dreadlocks framing his face as he gazes down.
Born in Stockton, Calif., Honable became the CEO of Bare Face Records before moving to Katy in January to open a second recording studio, an online obituary said.
“He was an aspiring hip hop artist with a golden tongue,” the obituary continued. “He thought fast and on his feet, loved to make people laugh, and he engaged people from coast to coast as he chased his dream.”
A sign in front of Honable’s two-story home, which overlooks a lake, now shows it for sale for $750,000. A brochure described it as 4,875 square feet, including a media room with a balcony, a three-car garage and three “spacious secondary bedrooms,” plus a master suite with a jetted tub.
In an update on the crowdfunding page after the arrest, Honable’s mother called the $200,000 bail set for Carrillo-Castilla “extremely low.” She could not be reached by phone.