Leigh Frillici's 11 News report

The wife of a local minister who suffered a brutal stabbing attack is speaking out in defense of her husband.

LaTonya Miles says there is no way her husband, Chester, was meeting a prostitute at a hotel in Humble when police say he was attacked and robbed by two young suspects.

“I don’t even know how I could have, for one inkling of a second, think he was there to meet a prostitute.  That’s not my husband,” she said.

But police believe Chester Miles, the associate pastor of the Greater Mount Zion Church, was going to the Great Western Inn for that very reason.

On Tuesday, police charged two suspects with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon for the attack: Carlos Guillory, 18, and Darrell Pickett, 23.

Police say Guillory and Pickett saw Miles at the hotel, beat him, stabbed him and stole his car.

Guillory and a juvenile were found by police last Wednesday in Miles’ car at a southwest Houston apartment complex.

Guillory was arrested on an outstanding warrant.  The juvenile was released.

Miles is not denying he was at the motel, but in a note to his wife from his hospital bed he said he was not there to meet a prostitute.

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Carlos Guillory and Terrell Pickett

“I trust him. I trust him, he has been an excellent husband and an excellent father,” she said.

Miles had been at Ben Taub as a John Doe patient ever since he disappeared last Monday.  After seeing his face on the news Saturday, a worker there recognized him as the stabbing victim she’d been treating.

LaTonya had reported her husband missing after he failed to pick his daughter up from school last Monday.

Police say they are still looking for two women from the hotel.