A Texas real estate agent was arrested for stabbing a woman to death in her apartment over 14 years ago.
The New York Post reports Mayra Velasquez was apprehended for the killing of Irasema Chavez, who was found in her Arlington, Texas, apartment on Jan. 20, 2012, with nearly 100 stab wounds. The initial investigation found no signs of forced entry into Chavez’s apartment, and the only evidence at the time was surveillance video footage of a person in baggy clothing and a hoodie climbing the stairs and knocking on the door of Chavez’s residence before being allowed inside.
Over the years, the case went cold when DNA evidence failed to match potential suspects in police databases. The case was reanimated in 2024 when Arlington police and the FBI Dallas Field Office used the agency’s advanced Investigative Genetic Genealogy program to combine the crime scene evidence with public genealogy databases and family tree research.
Investigators did not reveal the information that linked Velasquez to the crime, except to say there was enough data to issue an arrest warrant. Also unclear is whether Velasquez and Chavez knew each other.
Velasquez’s social media pages identify her formerly working with Pure Realtors LLC and holding an active real estate license. She is currently employed as an affiliate manager for JC Limo.
Velasquez is being held on no bond, and her next court date has not been scheduled.
If she was no longer a realtor what bring it up? Is that newsworthy to anyone or just realtors clickbait.
This is what I find questionable about your news reporting. Many times just reporting the crimes committed by real estate agents rather than the good they do.
This obviously is a person with very little experience in real estate and you make it appear by the title she’s a full time, committed agent.
Start reporting news of the good things real estate agents do for the public.
What does her being an agent have to do with the crime? By saying that she is an agent makes it appear that her position had something to do with the crime, i.e. she committed the crime while showing her property, or she used her Realtor access to gain access to the victim’s home.
I agree with the comments here. If she was no longer a realtor, then the article should read X Realtor or retired Realtor. The article should have more information, but I also agree that I never see any positive articles about all the good we do in our daily lives for our Clients or Community.
I agree with the other comments of realtors. So many articles describing crimes done by realtors give the public the idea that all realtors are criminals or potential criminals. The hard working and serious realtors do not have time to plan crimes. Many people have a hardened opinion about realtors in general. We are just people doing the best business that we can.
For everyone bagging on the author here, look up the news. All of the articles describe the perp as a Realtor committing this heinous crime. I think it’s to show how a professional person, registered through the state, fingerprinted and suppose to be held at a higher trust level is capable of such an act. It doesn’t necessarily mean a client or property needed to be involved. It’s the same shock value when we learn an attorney, judge, or doctor commits a crime.
Can’t really tell by the article but how does a stranger gain access to one’s apartment. Is the Real Estate license the smoking gun? Don;t really know.
It is unclear whether the two women knew each other. A lot of details on the arrest were not released.