A Texas woman woman has been brought back to Bexar County, where she is accused of shooting her common-law husband in the face and stealing his truck.
The investigation began when Calhoun County deputies found Tomas Calavera Jr’s truck on fire on December 23 and requested a welfare check from Bexar County authorities at his home, KENS reported.
Bexar deputies found Calavera’s body in a closet with a gunshot wound to the face. They also briefly detained his father, who had been asked by Calhoun authorities to check on his son.
Witnesses told Calhoun County deputies they saw a woman trying to extinguish herself as she walked away from the Port O’Connor scene, some 150 miles from San Antonio, and they eventually found Faith Goynes, 40, as she was trying to paddle away in a kayak. She reportedly “confessed to shooting the victim, taking his truck and setting it on fire,” court documents say.
An arrest affidavit in Calhoun County, where she was also charged with murder as well as arson, said that a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officer found Goynes in the kayak. She had severe burns on one hand and was carrying Calavera’s identification, KSAT reported.
Goynes was not immediately brought back to Bexar County because Texas requires a formal extradition process usually reserved for state to state or nation to nation and not counties within a state. That process was completed on Thursday, jail records show,
She is charged with first degree murder. No bond has been set.
For the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’ podcast.
[Featured image: Faith Goynes/Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office and Tomas “Keola” Calavera Jr/DW Brooks Funeral Home]
