Carrollton woman arrested after husband stabbed, home burns in overnight incident

A Carrollton woman was arrested on a murder charge after officers found her on the porch of a burning home and later discovered her husband inside with a stab wound to the abdomen.

Carrollton police said officers were dispatched at about 1:40 a.m. Monday, April 27, to the 3600 block of Old Denton Road after a report of a stabbing. When officers arrived, they found the house on fire and saw 58-year-old Carolina Macias sitting on the front porch. Police said she told them her husband was still inside.

Officers were unable to enter because of the intensity of the fire. Carrollton Fire Rescue later went inside and found 62-year-old Ramon Macias with a stab wound to the abdomen. Both Carolina Macias and Ramon Macias were transported to a local hospital. Ramon Macias was pronounced dead.

Police later identified the victim as Ramon Macias, Carolina Macias’s husband, and said Carolina Macias was arrested and charged with murder. She was taken to the Carrollton Jail. Investigators said the case remained active and ongoing, and they said they believed the incident was isolated and there was no danger to the public.

Police have not released a motive or explained how the fire started. The sequence of events, a stabbing call, a burning home and a death inside the residence, put multiple emergency crews into a fast-moving scene that unfolded before dawn in a Carrollton neighborhood.

The case also lands against a broader state backdrop. The Texas Council on Family Violence reported 161 domestic-violence deaths in Texas in 2024, including 137 women and 24 men. The group also reported that 205 Texans were killed by intimate partners in 2023. In a state where domestic-violence fatalities remain a persistent problem, the Carrollton case stands out for the violence police found inside one home and the unanswered questions that remain about what happened before firefighters got there.