A cellphone left behind at the crime scene helped Lewisville police track down an 18-year-old accused of stabbing a woman in what police say was a random attack.
Guadalupe Buenaventura faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police say he attacked a 56-year-old woman, identified in police records as Penny Denney, this week outside her home in Lewisville.
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Buenaventura was in the Denton County jail on Saturday with bail set at $10,000.
Officers were called about 6:30 p.m. Monday to the 1200 block of Winston Drive. The victim’s husband told police his wife had gone outside to move trash bins to the alley when she suddenly ran inside and told him she’d been stabbed in the stomach, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit for Buenaventura.
A man had approached her and asked if she had seen a little girl. When she said no, he stabbed her and took off running, according to the affidavit.
The suspect dropped his phone and left it at the scene, according to the affidavit.
The victim’s next-door neighbor told police that the same evening, someone had been persistently knocking on his door for several minutes.
When he answered the door, a young man asked if he had seen his dog, according to the affidavit. The neighbor said no.
The day after the stabbing, police did a forensic analysis of the phone abandoned at the scene and discovered that it belonged to someone named “Lupe Buenaventura," according to the affidavit.
Police worked with a school resource officer at Lewisville ISD to find a record of Buenaventura, an 18-year-old Lewisville High School graduate. The address on his school record “is literally one street over from Winston Drive,” where the stabbing was, police wrote in an affidavit.
Buenaventura is a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, according to The Shorthorn.
Denney, the victim, picked Buenaventura out of a photo lineup when detectives visited her in the hospital, according to the affidavit. The stabbing left her with a laceration to her liver, according to police.
Her son told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that his mother feared that the suspect might try to find her again.
“It’s mainly like, ‘Why? Why did this happen to me?’” Stephen Denney told the Star-Telegram. "And then just her talking about how she’s scared — ‘What if he comes after me again?’”
He praised his mother’s bravery and quick thinking to pick up the phone the suspect dropped after the attack, telling the Star-Telegram that she is an “absolute hero.”
A GoFundMe campaign for the victim has raised more than $4,000 as of Saturday.
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