Police arrested a Dallas man on Tuesday, charging him with capital murder for the stabbing death of his roommate just days earlier.
Mason Raymond Davis, 28, spent the last day of his life, March 22, moving out of his Oak Cliff apartment in the 800 block of West 7th Street. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, surveillance video shows Davis and his roommate, 23-year-old Ethan Isaiah Rodriguez, moving property from the apartment to Davis’ car, a red Honda Accord.
The complex’s landlord positively identified Rodriguez as the man in the video helping Davis move his belongings.
Rodriguez can be seen in the video leaving the premises in Davis’ vehicle around midnight. According to Dallas police, no one else enters or leaves the apartment after that.
On March 23, police received a request to do a welfare check on Davis after he failed to show up for work. When no one answered the door, police forced their way inside the apartment and found Davis dead on the floor. He had been stabbed 55 times, per Fox 4 KDFW. Police then reported Davis’ vehicle as stolen.
The next day, police spotted the vehicle on the road and attempted to make a traffic stop, but the driver, later identified as Rodriguez, led police on a chase. He crashed the car into several other vehicles and then fled from the scene on foot, but police captured Rodriguez shortly afterward.
At the time of his arrest, Rodriguez was wearing shoes that had a pattern on the soles similar to a shoeprint found in blood at the apartment.
In addition to the murder charge, Rodriguez is also facing charges of evading arrest in a motor vehicle and possession of marijuana and is being held on a $1,025,000 bond.