A Northern California mother of two who was beheaded with a sword last week has been identified and the father of one of her children has been charged with the brutal murder. The family of 27-year-old Karina Castro confirmed that she was beheaded in the street outside her home at noon Thursday by a man with a sword, KGO-TV reported. The man who police say killed her is 33-year-old Jose Rafael Solano Ladaeta, the father of Castro’s 1-year-old daughter. The attack took place on Thursday at 11:50 am. at Laurel Street and Magnolia Avenue in San Carlos – located about 25 miles south of San Francisco, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department. CALIFORNIA SAW INCREASE IN MURDER, VIOLENT CRIME IN 2021, ACCORDING TO PUBLICATION Karina Castro was beheaded this week by the father of her child in San Carlos, California (GoFundMe) “The head was under the car and she was laying in the back of the car — she was just cut,” neighbor Chapel Thorborn told local radio station KGO. “And they covered her.” The victim’s children, a 7-year-old and 1-year-old girl, were inside the home and did not witness the brutal beheading, ABC 7 News reported. They were placed in the custody of Child Protective Services. DEMOCRATS MUST NATIONALIZE CALIFORNIA’S CRIME CRISIS TO DEFEAT DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER “[Law-enforcement] he arrived within minutes and found an apparently dead woman on the road in that area,” he said Lieutenant Eamonn Allen during a press conference on Thursday. “They began working the scene and a short time later, the male suspect returned to the scene and was quickly apprehended by sheriff’s deputies. He was later arrested for murder.” Solano has reportedly been violent with Castro in the past, and her family says she obtained a restraining order against him earlier this year, but continued to see him. View of El Camino Real, a main thoroughfare in the Silicon Valley city of San Carlos, California, January 19, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO CRIME VICTIM CELEBRATES PROGRESSIVE DA HIRING: ‘A SENSE OF VALIDATION’ “Every time I saw her, I begged her,” Martin Castro, Karina’s father, told WGO-TV. “Don’t talk to him. Leave him alone and it seemed like the more I did that, the more he would see.” Solano is currently being held for murder in San Carlos. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On a GoFundMe page that has raised nearly $50,000, Martin Castro wrote that he is “devastated” and “more hurt than I ever thought I could be by the situation.” “Thank you all for helping us even at the worst time of our lives,” the post said. Fox News’ Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips at [email protected]
