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A 27-year-old Alamo man has been indicted for a bloody double stabbing that left two men dead at a McAllen Motel 6 in March.
A grand jury indicted Carlos Antonio Cardenas on April 27 on charges of capital murder of multiple persons and attempted murder.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday morning.
McAllen police arrested Cardenas on March 18 at 6:30 a.m. at the hotel on 700 W. Expressway 83, where they found the man holding a knife and soaked in blood “from his face to his shoes.”
He was poking a window at the hotel’s front office with a black foldable knife, trying to gain entry when an officer pointed his gun at the man and ordered him to drop his knife before arresting him.
After his arrest, Cardenas spoke incoherently and refused to identify himself, claiming an unknown “they” would hear it, according to a 22-page probable cause affidavit. Investigators also found a clear glass pipe with burnt residue in his pocket.
Cardenas is accused of killing 42-year-old San Juan resident Luis Eduardo Garza and 45-year-old Keith Henry Cole, who is from Richmond, Virginia.
Both men sustained multiple stab wounds and surveillance video shows Cardenas stabbing both of them, according to police.
That video also apparently shows Cardenas and an unidentified man walking out of a hotel room at around 4:35 a.m. prior to the stabbings. The other man drove away in a white car, leaving Cardenas behind, according to the affidavit.
After the stabbings, Cardenas, who was drenched in blood, went to the front office and told the front desk clerk: “Something happened, somebody got killed.”
The man also said someone was trying to kill him and warned the front desk clerk that if police were called “they are going to kill you and they are going to kill all of us.”
Then Cardenas began kicking the front desk glass door as the attendant called 911 and escaped through another exit, according to the affidavit, which said another man was in the lobby and began walking off as Cardenas followed behind him.
The affidavit said Cardenas grabbed that man and threatened him.
“You need to come with me,” Cardenas told the man as he shoved a knife to his face, according to the affidavit.
The man told police that Cardenas wanted him to take the knife but he refused and Cardenas let him go. He then called police.
When authorities arrived and arrested Cardenas, he yelled out “I saved you. I saved you,” to the man as Cardenas was wheeled by paramedics into an ambulance, according to the affidavit.
That document says Cardenas started spitting, vomiting and speaking incoherently while in the ambulance.
He remains held in the Hidalgo County Adult Detention Center on a total of $906,000 in bonds.
