DICKSON — A woman arrested in connection with the killing of a Dickson County Sheriff's Office deputy told police she watched suspect Steven Wiggins fatally shoot the officer, court documents released Thursday show.
Erika Castro-Miles, 38, of Dickson, is charged with first-degree murder in the Wednesday morning slaying of Sgt. Daniel Baker. Wiggins, a 31-year-old dangerous felon, is being sought in connection to the slaying. He remained at large Thursday.
"The defendant was seated in the vehicle with Steven Wiggins when he did shoot and kill Sgt. Daniel Baker with premeditation," an affidavit filed in Dickson County General Sessions Court reads.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Baker was found dead in his vehicle Wednesday morning after responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle near Sam Vineyard Road.
The affidavit, signed by TBI Special Agent Nathan L. Neese, also says that after the shooting Castro-Miles fled the scene in an effort to elude law enforcement.
She was later found hiding under a house in the area, court documents show.
Authorities detained the woman shortly after to questioning her and she was later taken into custody.
As of Thursday morning, Castro-Miles remained in the Dickson County jail without bond. A Dickson County jail deputy said that she had not yet obtained an attorney and no court date had been set in her case.
According to the TBI, Castro-Miles knew Wiggins and investigators had received information that she "participated in the incident."
Wiggins, a felon with a violent criminal history spanning back more than a decade, was wanted on multiple warrants at the time of the shooting.
Authorities haven't announced a possible motive in the killing, but said Wiggins was quickly identified using surveillance footage.
Just one day before the fatal shooting, police charged Wiggins with aggravated assault and theft stemming from a domestic incident involving Castro-Miles that took place at a motel in the 100 block of Luyben Hills Road in Kingston Springs.
According to a Kingston Springs Police Department report, Castro-Miles told officers Wiggins slapped her in the face, pulled her hair out and put a gun to her head and told her he was "going to kill her if she called the police."
The report says Wiggins then took Castro-Miles' keys and stole her brown, four-door 1998 Saturn.
The Saturn was found the following morning in Dickson County riddled with bullet holes.