Police find victim stabbed to death in Ada parking lot; Nampa man charged with murder
A man is in custody after police found a victim who appeared to have been stabbed to death Wednesday morning.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, and deputies were directed to the parking lot of a Chevron gas station near the entrance of the Avimor community north of Eagle, sheriff’s spokesperson Patrick Orr told the Idaho Statesman in an email.
They found an adult male from Nampa “slumped over in a car” with a fatal stab wound, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. The parked car was running at the gas station at the corner of East Beacon Light Road and Idaho 55.
Deputies removed the man from the car and began first aid until paramedics arrived, the release stated.
“Paramedics took the man to a local hospital, where he was declared dead a brief time later,” the release said. “While that was happening, deputies identified (Raul) Cuevas as a suspect in the case.”
Nampa resident Raul Cuevas, 31, was taken into custody at 6:59 a.m., according to the sheriff’s website. Orr confirmed this to the Statesman.
Daulton Stachler, a manager at the Chevron, told the Statesman that Cuevas came into the Chevron and used the gas station’s phone to call law enforcement and turn himself in.
“Investigators are still figuring out why the stabbing occurred at a gas station parking lot in Avimor in north Ada County, which is over 25 miles and several towns away from Nampa,” the sheriff’s office release indicated.
Cuevas has been charged with first-degree murder and is in the Ada County Jail, according to online records.
This story was originally published March 29, 2023 at 11:40 AM.
