FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2025
TCSO Secures Fentanyl-Related Murder Warrant in 2024 Homicide
The Travis County Sheriff’s Office Homicide and VICE Units secured a murder warrant in a monthslong investigation stemming from a 2024 homicide. This warrant marks the first fentanyl-related murder warrant TCSO has filed on the State level.
The incident began on Aug. 4, 2024, when TCSO deputies responded to an Assist EMS call from the 3300 block of Killingsworth Lane. Upon arrival, 22-year-old Raymundo Silva Jr. was found lying on the floor. Deputies began CPR until medics and the fire department arrived, however, resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, and Silva was pronounced deceased on scene.
Deputies seized a round, blue pill which later tested presumptively positive for fentanyl. An autopsy was conducted by the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office on Aug. 5, 2024, determining the cause of death to be toxic effects of fentanyl, cocaine, ethanol and quetiapine.
Detectives identified suspect Noe Arrellano-Perez, 21, as Silva’s potential supplier of the drugs, or “percs.” Arrellano-Perez was booked in the Travis County Jail on Sept. 2, 2024, on unrelated charges. TCSO’s case remained active, and detectives were able to obtain evidence that placed Arrellano-Perez in the area of Silva’s residence on the night of his death along with correspondence between him and Silva indicating the delivery of the pills.
As of Tuesday, Arrellano-Perez remains in TCSO custody charged with murder, a first-degree felony.
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Submitted by:
Kristen Dark, Sr. Public Information Officer | (512) 854-4986
Drew Knight, Public Information Specialist | (512) 854-8426