KEY LARGO, Fla. – Wild dashboard and physique digital camera movies present the moments authorities say a South Florida tried homicide suspect stole a sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser, pulled as much as a lady — apparently below the guise of a site visitors cease — carjacked her and crashed her SUV.
The movies, obtained by Native 10 Information on Wednesday, present what occurred on Dec. 22 in Key Largo. A Monroe County Sheriff’s Workplace sergeant was making an attempt to take Armando Lopez, 52, into custody after they stated he tried to kill his ex-girlfriend at a house on Palm Drive.
“My dad is in my home hitting my mother to loss of life,” his daughter is heard saying in a 911 recording.
Authorities stated Lopez severely beat the 30-year-old sufferer, suffocated her by stuffing her mouth with a cleansing material soaked with Fabuloso and strangled her whereas repeatedly threatening to kill her.
After MCSO Sgt. James Hager arrived, Lopez punched him as he tried, unsuccessfully, to unholster the deputy’s gun; the sergeant ended up on prime of Lopez’s 3-year-old son throughout the wrestle, an arrest affidavit states.
Hager tried unsuccessfully to make use of a Taser on Lopez. The video exhibits the sergeant with the stun gun as Lopez will get inside his cruiser and drives off.
“He simply stole my patrol automobile!” Hager is heard saying in physique digital camera video. “He’s working northbound. Lights are on. He tried to take my gun from my holster.”
Dashboard digital camera footage from his cruiser exhibits Lopez driving erratically earlier than stopping at The Sandal Manufacturing facility on 102411 Abroad Freeway, lights flashing, and approaching an unsuspecting 46-year-old lady in an SUV, who appeared to suppose she was being pulled over by a deputy.
As a substitute, the video exhibits a shirtless Lopez exiting the cruiser and pulling on her SUV door.
“Get out,” he’s heard repeatedly telling the shocked sufferer.
Deputies and a state trooper have been sizzling on his tail earlier than he wrecked the girl’s SUV, rolling it over.
The video exhibits Lopez pinned below the car as deputies pull him out.
A day after the incident, Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay referred to as it a “reminder of the risks regulation enforcement officers routinely face whereas merely doing their jobs.”
Lopez stays in an MCSO jail facility as of Wednesday, held with out bond on a laundry record of prices.
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