Man Accused Of Killing Estranged Wife Caught

El Paso Police arrested 42-year-old Brian Engleton at a Northeast El Paso motel Friday afternoon, one day after the fatal stabbing of his estranged wife.

Investigators from Crimes Against Persons (CAP), the CAP Gang unit, officers from the El Paso Police Department’s Northeast Station, U.S. Marshals Lone Fugitive Task Force, and Crisis Management Team caught up with Engleton at the The Beverly Crest Motel on the 8700 block of Dyer.

That is two miles from where Deidre Angela Engleton was attacked.

According to EPPD officials, they found 43-year-old Deidre Engleton stabbed several times in the neck and chest outside her beauty salon on the 5200 block of Antonio Thursday morning. Paramedics rushed her to William Beaumont Army Medical Center where she died a short time later.

Deidre’s family and co-workers wept as police officers cordoned off the crime scene, recounting to ABC-7 the couple’s history of domestic abuse.

“She was still scared,” one of her co-workers told ABC-7. “Me and her were talking last night about it and I told Deidre, ‘At this point in time, he don’t care, you know, because he gonna lose everything because he’s not from here and he’s going to get deported back to Belize and now he just don’t care, he don’t care about nothing now,’ … If he did, he would have thought about his daughter,” the co-worker said. “Now, she don’t have no mother.”

The ABC-7 I-Team found court documents that show Deidre asked authorities for help. She requested a protective order May 2 and a judge granted it. Just two weeks ago, she filed for divorce.

El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal told ABC-7 protective orders do work in most cases, but added those who apply need to take extra steps to protect themselves.

“It’s only a piece of paper,” she said. “We always recommend that they have a plan for escape in case that protective order is violated, that they have money set aside, transportation, someone that they can call.”

Lorraine Anderson, Deidre’s mother, said she knew her daughter was in danger.

“I told her, ‘you know, this family violence stuff can get somebody killed,’ I said, ‘you need to call the police or something, don’t answer the phone anymore,’ and it wasn’t about an hour later I got this call.”

The call was from police, telling Anderson of the attack against her daughter.

“They said there was so much blood they couldn’t tell where they stabbed her,” said Anderson.

Police say Engleton’s homicide is the 14th this year in the city of El Paso.