CLAUDIA HIDIC - 17 yo - Fort Worth TX

Texas police search for clues in shooting death of 17-year-old aspiring actress

Published July 02, 2012
FoxNews.com



Texas authorities are searching for a suspect and motive behind the shooting death of a 17-year-old aspiring actress whose body was found last week behind a south Fort Worth home.

Claudia Hidic, of Fort Worth, was found dead Thursday night from a single gunshot wound to the head in what authorities have ruled a homicide.

A man, whom police have not identified, called 911 shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday to report finding the young woman's body behind his house, Fox affiliate KDFW-TV reported. The back door of the man's home appeared to have been kicked in, police said.

The man told authorities he did not know the woman. The Star-Telegram reported Sunday that he has stopped talking to investigators, though he is not considered a suspect or "person of interest" in the case.

Hidic, who was reportedly a Bosnian from Germany, had just completed her junior year at Trinity High School in Euless.

The teen's former foster parents, Jim and Sue Scionka, described her to KDFW as a beautiful young woman who had dreams of going to college and becoming an actress.

"If your heart is touching you ... If you know anything about this situation I pray (you) would contact the authorities," Jim Scionka told the station.

Police reportedly obtained a search warrant and combed the man's home looking for any evidence in the case. It's not known whether anything was taken from the residence.

"We're still interviewing witnesses, family and friends," police spokeswoman Sharron Neal told the Star-Telegram. "We have spent many hours there trying to find out what happened .... It's just taking some time to process all the evidence we have."

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Fort Worth resident who found student's body near back door has quit talking to investigators

Posted Sunday, Jul. 01, 2012
By Domingo Ramirez Jr., ramirez@star-telegram.com

Excerpt:

FORT WORTH -- A resident who found the body of a Trinity High School student near the back door of his home last week has stopped talking to investigators, police said Sunday.

The man, whom police have not identified, called 911 Thursday evening and reported finding the body of Claudia Hidic of Fort Worth and he told police that he did not know her.

But after an initial conversation with investigators, he stopped communicating with them, Fort Worth police officer Sharron Neal said.

The man, however, was not a "person of interest" or a suspect, Neal said Sunday.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/07/01/4072090/fort-worth-resident-who-found.html#storylink=cpy

Fort Worth teen found dead was killed in robbery gone wrong: police
Claudia Hidic, 17, was found dead near the back door of a man's home in the Tanglewood neighborhood of Fort Worth on June 28, her body face down.

BY MEENA HART DUERSON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012, 2:48 PM

A beautiful Texas teenager shot to death last month was no innocent victim but a criminal killed in a robbery gone wrong, police now say.

Claudia Hidic, 17, was found dead near the back door of a man's home in the Tanglewood neighborhood of Fort Worth on June 28, her body face down, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The back door had also been kicked in.

Her death, of a gunshot wound to the head, was ruled a homicide.

But while friends took to Facebook to mourn the loss of the stunning young woman, who would have been a senior at Trinity High School this fall, police revealed Hidic had put herself in the line of fire by organizing a robbery that ended in gunshots.

A source close to the investigation told the Star-Telegram that Hidic was the mastermind behind the theft, directing accomplices Curtis Fortenberry and Terrance Crumley, both 21, to rob a location she specifically chose.

The source, who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity, said Hidic had been to the home before, where the threesome returned, at least one of them armed.

They reportedly entered the house through the back door, where between five and six people were home. A neighbor told the paper he saw four women running from the scene after gunfire erupted.

The man who found her body outside of his house told police he did know who Hidic was. By July 1, a police spokeswoman told the Star-Telegram the homeowner had stopped talking to investigators, though he was not a “person of interest in the case.”

In a press release to local media outlets, police confirmed Hidic had been inside the home prior to the robbery, and said she and the two men “engaged in criminal activity after planning and coordinating a robbery ... against the occupants inside,” KCEN-TV reported.

Both Fortenberry and Crumley are now in police custody and have been charged with felony murder. They are being held on $100,000 bond.

A Facebook tribute page set up to honor the teenager was inundated with messages from friends in the wake of her death, though they expressed shock and confusion when news broke that she had been involved in the crime.

"The rest of what they are saying just doesn't seem true or at least I hope it's not," one friend wrote.

"What in the WORLD are they saying???" wrote another. "Sounds like a setup to me!”

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