Surveillance video from a Texas gas station shows a woman armed with a knife before authorities say she carjacked a truck and drove it into multiple vehicles and a gas pump.
The woman, identified as 43-year-old Chaninthorn Cuney of Louisiana, was recorded Saturday during a chaotic incident in Harris County, the Houston-area county where the gas station is located.
In footage obtained by ABC13, Cuney is seen holding a long knife and striking the window of an unoccupied black car parked at a gas station in eastern Houston.
Moments later, the video shows her approaching a white truck with a man seated behind the wheel. She appears to open the driver’s-side door and confront him while holding the knife.
A struggle lasting about 20 seconds followed as the man tried to take the weapon from Cuney. According to court documents reviewed by ABC13, she placed the knife against his neck during the confrontation.
Cuney then allegedly forced the man out of the truck and climbed into the driver’s seat. The surveillance footage shows the vehicle being driven into the same black car she had targeted moments earlier.
The truck then reversed before crashing into the black car again, striking the gas pump beside it, according to the video.
The footage continues as Cuney backs the truck toward the roadway, turns it, and crashes into a second vehicle parked at the gas station.
Surveillance cameras captured a crazy woman stabbing at a parked car with a knife at a gas station in Houston, Texas, before carjacking a truck and taking it on a rampage
The woman is pictured opening the driver’s side door of the truck she carjacked. She can be seen holding the knife in her right hand
She crashed the truck into a car at the gas station and the pump it was parked next to. She also rammed into two other vehicles and threatened another man with her knife, police said
The woman was identified as Chaninthorn Cuney, 43. She was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon
The woman then drove 13 miles east to Baytown, where she crashed into a postal truck, police said.
The postal worker got out to check on her before Cuney brandished the knife and began making stabbing and slashing motions in his direction, according to court documents.
She was finally arrested after driving to a nearby Exxon refinery and ramming one of the gates, according to police.
Cuney was booked into a Harris County jail and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, as well as aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, according to Harris County Sheriff’s Office records.
She is being held without bond, and her next court date is scheduled for Thursday, the records show.
At her probable cause hearing on Monday, Cuney strangely claimed she was a victim of identity theft when the magistrate asked her if she needed a court-appointed lawyer.
A 2020 press release from the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office in Cuney’s home state of Louisiana shows that she was previously arrested for a similar vehicular rampage.
In that case, Cuney was accused of getting into an argument with another person before taking a car and crashing it into several other vehicles and a house.
Cuney was previously arrested at least twice in her home state of Louisiana. One of the arrests was for a similar vehicular rampage to the one in Houston on Saturday
She was arrested and charged with felony criminal damage to property and reckless operation of a motor vehicle with an accident.
Another press release from the same sheriff’s office in Louisiana stated that Cuney was also arrested in 2021 and charged with felony criminal damage to property after she allegedly spray-painted a vehicle.
She posted bond and was ordered to appear in court in February 2022, but she never showed.
A warrant was issued for her arrest, and she was taken into custody three months later in Calcasieu Parish, about 180 miles west of Assumption Parish.
