Woman Watched Dickson Deputy's Murder, Hid Under House: Police

CHARLOTTE, TN -- The woman arrested in connection with the shooting death of Dickson County Sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Baker watched the murder and then hid under a house, investigators say.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced late Wednesday that Erika Castro-Miles, 38, is charged with first-degree murder in Baker's death even as the manhunt for alleged shooter Steven Joshua Wiggins, 31, continues.

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In an arrest affidavit filed Thursday, detectives allege that Castro-Miles was "seated in the vehicle with Steven Wiggins when he did shoot and kill Sgt. Daniel Baker with premeditation."

It goes on to claim she ran from the deadly scene and hid under a house until she was apprehended by law enforcement later Wednesday.

According to the TBI, Baker was dispatched to a report of a suspicious vehicle near San Vineyard Road around 7 a.m. Wednesday. After losing touch with Baker, the sheriff's department tracked his car using GPS and an officer from another agency found him dead in his patrol car about two miles away. Video evidence was recovered, the TBI said, linking Wiggins to the shooting.

Wiggins is still at-large as the search, which includes officers on foot, K-9s and aerial support, moves through its second day. The TBI said it has received 139 tips.

Investigators began searching for Wiggins in the vicinity of Bear Creek Valley Road and Tidwell Switch, a densely wooded area near the Hickman County line. He is 6-feet-1-inches tall and weighs 220 pounds.

"There's people out there who have information," Bledsoe said. "This is an evil deed he's done, but he can show people there's still something left in him by doing the right thing."

Wiggins was arrested Tuesday following a domestic incident. A woman, now known to be Castro-Miles, told investigators Wiggins slapped her and pulled her hair before pointing a gun at her and threatening to kill her.

Wiggins allegedly told the investigating officer he'd been smoking marijuana and using meth all day. He was charged with assault and theft of Castro-Miles' 1998 Saturn.

Wiggins has been arrested for domestic or aggravated assault at least eight times since 2006.

In a 2016 incident, he was alleged to have been holding his girlfriend at knifepoint at a Fairview hotel and charged at officers attempting to arrest him. He was hit with a Taser but pulled the barbs from his chest, according to an affidavit, and once he was restrained, became "combative" while in the patrol car.

According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, he was set to report for community supervision earlier this year but did not do so and he is currently in "absconded" status, essentially marking him as a TDOC fugitive.

After the shooting, Wiggins was added to the TBI's Most Wanted list.

Anyone seeing anything suspicious is asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND, 615-446-8041 or 911. The TBI said Wiggins is armed and very dangerous.

Photo via TBI