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Amaya Cookie Diaz \u2013 the youngest of three women charged with butchering a mother of five in Texas \u2013 was the one who wielded the knife during the horrific, broad-daylight attack, court documents obtained by The Post reveal.<\/p>\n

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Cookie, 19, along with her sister Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and their 21-year-old friend Kyandra Renee Faz were each slapped with $5 million bonds on first-degree murder charges by a Texas judge Friday \u2013 after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed 32-year-old Caroline \u201cCaro\u201d Pe\u00f1a during an argument in the small border city of Del Rio Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Faz told police that Pena had \u201carrived at her residence looking to start a fight,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage later obtained by investigators showed Pe\u00f1a\u2019s black Dodge pickup truck driving up to Faz\u2019s house, where Cookie and Kitty arrived shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

The video shows Cookie fly out of the passenger seat of the black Chrysler 300 and confront Pe\u00f1a \u2013 while wielding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

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Cookie is seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood then begins soaking her shirt, according to cops.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s when Kitty and Faz jumped in \u2013 allegedly beating Pe\u00f1a up before running away, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1a was reportedly driven to a local hospital by her nephew. She succumbed to the stab wounds about 7 hours later, at around 9 p.m., at a hospital in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The three accused attackers each requested court-appointed attorneys during their court appearance Friday.<\/p>\n

Read more Exclusive | Texas mom\u2019s final moments before twisted, grinning sisters Kitty and Cookie allegedly hacked her to death revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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