A Texas mother of five’s desperate last stand against the twisted sisters accused of hacking her to death was captured in a chilling new photo of the bloody attack in a dusty border town.
The haunting image — apparently snapped moments after 19-year-old Amaya Cookie Diaz allegedly plunged a knife into Caroline “Caro” Peña’s back – shows the 32-year-old victim’s pink T-shirt soaked in blood.
Just feet away, three women can be seen standing in the grass beside the visibly wounded Peña – including two whose clothing matches descriptions police later gave of the assailants.
Surveillance footage later obtained by cops showed Cookie clad in a red tank top and blue jeans, while her older sister, 21-year-old Kitty Mia Diaz – identifiable by tattoos covering her right arm – was seen wearing a pink tank top paired with blue jeans, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the third woman in the disturbing photo – seen dressed in a grey t-shirt – is 21-year-old Kyandra Renee Faz, who was also charged in Peña’s murder.
In the image, a man appears to have his arms wrapped around Cookie’s shoulders while Peña is seen facing and speaking to another man – possibly her nephew, who reportedly drove her from the grisly scene to a local hospital.
The chilling photo was uploaded to a local community Facebook page, three sources confirmed to The Post, but swiftly scrubbed from the platform after Peña succumbed to the knife wounds at a hospital in San Antonio at around 9 p.m. Thursday.
Faz and the Diaz sisters are behind bars after each were slapped with $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
They’re each charged with first-degree murder.