Man Has Self Arrested to Meet Family’s Killer

SAN ANTONIO — The father of four children who were stabbed to death in April had himself arrested Wednesday in an effort to meet the children’s killer in jail, police said.

But police said that the father, Ernest A. Mann, was unaware that Leo Narvaiz Jr., 20, already had been transferred to Death Row in Huntsville.

Narvaiz was convicted last week of murdering Mann’s daughters, Shannon, 17, Jennifer, 19, and Martha, 15, and son Ernest Jr., 13. Narvaiz was a former boyfriend of Shannon Mann. Ernest Mann, 36, was arrested after officers received a call about a man taking garden chairs and lawn hoses from outside homes and placing them in his pickup truck.

He was fined $50 on a charge of theft under $20, officials said.