Police found woman’s body inside closet of suspect’s Dallas apartment, affidavit says (2024)

The man accused of killing a 27-year-old woman allegedly wrapped her in bedding and placed her in a closet in his Dallas apartment after a witness saw the body and contacted police, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News.

The suspect, 34-year-old Omar Lucio, faces a murder charge in the slaying of Corinna Johnson.

Erica Hernandez, Johnson’s older sister, told The News on Thursday that Johnson was a bubbly, caring, outgoing person and a mother to a 7-year-old boy.

Hernandez said Johnson had been a relationship with Lucio for six or seven years and didn’t deserve what happened to her, but she hopes her story can help bring attention to domestic violence awareness.

Johnson’s family created a GoFundMe page to raise money for her funeral and are hosting a fundraising event at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Daquiri Dash, 2801 E. Pioneer Parkway in Arlington.

Lucio was booked into the Dallas County jail Monday afternoon and remained in custody on a $1 million bond, records show. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.

What the affidavit says

The witness went to a Garland police station early Monday and reported that she believed a person had been murdered about 24 hours earlier in an apartment in the 1300 block of West Wheatland Road and the body was “bludgeoned and still at the location,” an officer wrote in the affidavit.

Garland police notified Dallas police of the report, and officers responded to the apartment about 1:50 a.m.

They knocked on the suspect’s door but he refused to leave until about 3 a.m., when he was taken into custody.

Officers entered the apartment and found “what appeared the be a blood trail” throughout multiple rooms, the affidavit says. Clothing with apparent blood stains on it were also located in the suspect’s vehicle.

The witness told a detective she knew Lucio for about six months and would occasionally meet up with him, including on Sunday when he messaged her at about 1 a.m. and asked her to pick him up because he didn’t want to be home, according to the warrant.

She told police after she picked him up that he told her he had been drinking with Johnson at a bar in downtown Dallas but Johnson got them kicked out and it upset him.

“[The witness] stated the suspect told her that he had put his hands on [Johnson] and stated he had knocked some sense into her and that she became unresponsive,” so she told him they needed to return to his apartment and check on Johnson, the officer wrote in the affidavit. When they arrived, the witness said Johnson was lying on the bathroom floor with a bruised and bloody face and appear to be dead.

Lucio told police he was with Johnson at the bar late Saturday when they were bounced, which began an argument.

He told police he “has a temper” and “snapped” while he was in the vehicle driving back to his apartment and hit her with his hands, according to the affidavit.

Lucio said after they arrived at his apartment, he carried Johnson upstairs and thought she would be OK but later noticed she had stopped breathing, the warrant says.

The officer wrote in the warrant that Lucio would not provide details of how Johnson ended up wrapped in bedding and placed in the closet.

The investigation is ongoing.