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Around 2 a.m., a woman was walking in the area of 31st and King streets when a man attacked her, O’Brien said. The man threw her to the ground but ran away when she started screaming, O’Brien said.
Then around 5 a.m., a man attacked a woman inside her home in the 300 block of 31st Street, O’Brien said. The man gave the victim non-serious injuries and then ran away, O’Brien said.
“We don’t know if these incidents are related to each other, but because they occurred within a small geographic area over about a three-hour time period, we certainly want to learn more about who was involved,” O’Brien said.
Police released a description of the man based on the first attack. The victim described her attacker as a muscular man between the ages of 30 and 40 who was about 6-feet tall and was last seen wearing a gray hooded jacket with a dark T-shirt and blue jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide tip line at (512) 477-3588.
EARLIER: Esme Barrera, a teaching assistant and avid rock-music fan, was the victim in the New Year’s Day homicide, friends said.
Police have said they found a body in the 3100 block of King Street, a home north of the University of Texas, at about 3 a.m. Sunday after responding to an urgent “check welfare” call.
Police haven’t released details of the case, or identified Barrera as the victim. But friends posted news of her death on social-networking sites and music blogs.
Barrera, 29, was an El Paso native who worked with special needs children at Casis Elementary School, was a counselor at a summer rock-music camp for girls and was a huge music fan who worked part-time at Waterloo Records, friends and co-workers said.
“She was extremely friendly and really talkative, and there was no way that after being around her for 10 minutes that you couldn’t love her,” said Allison Kemp, who worked with Barrera at Waterloo Records. “She was genuine and positive and uplifting and pretty much any positive word you can think of. She had more personality than could fit in one body.”
Friend Alyx Vesey met Barrera working at Girls Rock Camp, a day camp where staffers seek to empower middle- and high-school-aged girls by helping them to write and perform original songs.
Barrera was not in a band, “but she was rock music’s number one fan.” Vesey said. “She knew all the bands in town, what cool band was coming up and was always recommending music to listen to and always going to shows… She knew everybody and everybody seemed to know her … She was smaller than me — I’m 5’2” — but she was just a ball of energy.”
Barrera’s positive attitude translated perfectly to her role teaching young, special-needs children, said Emily Gross, who worked with her at Casis Elementary School.
The job “takes so much patience and dedication and she was amazing at staying centered and positive,” Gross said. “Even in trying situations, she was steady… she was able to transfer all of her positive energy onto the kids.”
(Meanwhile, girl tells friend not to submit to tests and cops arrest her with no cause. Nowadays cops can arrest you just because you annoyed them. Thanks George Bush. I love losing my constitutional rights.)
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