LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WFLA) — An 18-year-old is accused of stabbing a girl within the neck with a pair of scissors and throwing a liquor bottle at her face at a Florida Publix final week.
On Feb. 26, Lee County deputies and Fort Myers police responded to the Publix situated at 5781 Lee Boulevard in Lehigh Acres after a caller stated a person attacked a girl with a wine bottle.
Gabriel Solomon, of Lehigh Acres, randomly attacked a 62-year-old girl, stabbing her at the back of the neck earlier than chucking a liquor bottle at her, an arrest report stated.
The girl was in a position to block the bottle from hitting her by pushing her purchasing cart towards Solomon as he lunged at her. One other buyer tackled Solomon to the bottom to cease him.
The report stated Solomon grabbed a pair of scissors from his house and walked to the shop after listening to voices in his head. He later advised authorities that the voices advised him to go to that Publix and discover somebody purchasing. Though the voices did not inform him to harm the girl, he needed to do it as a result of it “felt good,” in accordance with the report.
He added that the girl was standing subsequent to him in one of many aisles and he had locked in on her, following her across the retailer earlier than the assault.
As soon as officers arrived, the sufferer was discovered at the back of the shop with Publix staff with a cool towel round her neck. In line with the arrest report, the girl additionally had bruising and swelling to her left hand, however could not clarify how she received her accidents.
Solomon was discovered sitting outdoors the entrance doorways of the grocery retailer and demanded to be detained.
The suspect’s father arrived on the Publix and flagged down an officer, saying his son was not too long ago positioned beneath a Baker Act. He claimed Solomon did not have behavioral or psychological well being points till he started dwelling together with his mom in Arcadia two years in the past and turning into concerned “within the improper crowd,” the report stated.
Solomon was taken to the Lee County Jail on a cost of tried second-degree homicide.
