Man arrested in death of woman thrown from car

Noe Aranda, charged with murder and aggravated assault in the Oct. 11 crash, has been arrested. Noe Aranda, charged with murder and aggravated assault in the Oct. 11 crash, has been arrested. Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Man arrested in death of woman thrown from car 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A man charged in the death of a woman thrown from a moving car on to the Katy Freeway has been arrested.

The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force arrested Noe Aranda, 32, Thursday afternoon at a residence in the 1600 block of Ridge Hollow Drive in northwest Harris County, said Kese Smith, spokesman at the Houston Police Department. Smith said he was arrested without incident and was being questioned by HPD homicide detectives.

Aranda has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the Oct. 11 attack where two women were shot inside his moving car.

The body of Cristina Hernandez was found 20900 block of the Katy Freeway.

The other woman in the car, identified in court records as Yadira Reynosa, survived and was later questioned at an area hospital, where she remains.

Reynosa told Houston police she was driving a Dodge Magnum about 8:30 that night. Aranda, whom she called her boyfriend, was in the front passenger seat and Hernandez was in the back seat, Reynosa told police.

She told detectives Aranda had taken cocaine and "was becoming paranoid," according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Aranda also faces charges after he eluded police in a high-speed chase in April, driving a pickup truck with his children in tow.