Couple celebrated anniversary by shooting into ex's home while her kids were inside: Police

A New York mates celebrated their day successful Florida with a detour to the location of the man's ex, wherever the joined mates allegedly opened occurrence connected the ex's location arsenic the victim's 2 children were inside.

Angelo Portelli, 41, stands accused of attempted second-degree murder, battery, transgression mischief, and shooting into an occupied operation oregon gathering successful transportation with a December 2025 weapon onslaught astatine the location of a pistillate helium had concisely had a "casual" narration with, according to Florida authorities. His wife, Natalie Lopez-Portelli, 54, faces the aforesaid charges, according to tribunal records.

The alleged onslaught tin beryllium traced backmost to a "casual relationship" betwixt Portelli and the unfortunate that began aft the 2 met connected TikTok successful August 2025, according to a probable origin affidavit and question for pretrial detention reviewed by Law&Crime.

Although Portelli lived successful New York, helium "had flown to Florida astir 4 times to walk clip with [the victim]," the affidavit said, noting that Portelli knew wherever the unfortunate lived with her 2 children. Portelli had seemingly told the unfortunate that "he was going done a divorcement with his wife."

The unfortunate soon learned otherwise, seemingly from the woman herself.

"[The victim] was contacted by Natalie [Lopez-Portelli] who advised she was not going done a divorcement and that Angelo had been lying to her," the affidavit said. "Due to this, [the victim] chopped disconnected contact" with Portelli successful October 2025.

By December — astatine which constituent the unfortunate was surviving with her fiance, a constabulary section worker who had moved into her location — the still-married mates from New York seemingly decided to instrumentality action.

According to surveillance camera footage successful the neighborhood, the mates was seen parking a reddish Kia Sorrento successful beforehand of the victim's location soon earlier 8 p.m. connected Dec. 6, 2025, the affidavit said. Portelli and Lopez-Portelli are allegedly seen checking retired the victim's fiance's car — an agency-issued "marked patrol vehicle" — arsenic good arsenic the victim's car, earlier approaching the victim's location and ringing the doorbell.

When the victim's fiance answered, Portelli — who was allegedly wearing "a hoodie and immoderate benignant of look disguise on" — told the fiance that "someone had breached the backmost model of the patrol vehicle[.]" At this point, the unfortunate noticed "a pistillate wearing what appeared to beryllium a blonde wig." This was Lopez-Portelli, the affidavit said.

The joined mates allegedly attacked the fiance erstwhile helium went extracurricular to cheque connected his vehicle.

"As [the fiance] was looking successful the driver's broadside backmost door, Angelo approached [the fiance] from the rear and appeared to use a choke hold," the affidavit said. As the men fought, the fiance yelled astatine the unfortunate to "get my gun," astatine which constituent Lopez-Portelli approached the fiance and punched him, the affidavit said.

The fiance was capable to interruption escaped and marque it backmost to the house, astatine which constituent the unfortunate reportedly "hands him her Sig P365 firearm," according to the charging document. Surveillance video showed the 2 men firing astatine each other, though it was not wide who fired first, the affidavit said.

The men traded gunfire until the joined mates fled successful the Sorrento, according to the affidavit.

The victim's home "was struck aggregate times with gunfire from Angelo, to see wrong the location (rounds went done the unfastened beforehand doorway and struck the drywall adjacent the room area)," the affidavit said. "At the clip of the gunfire, [the victim] was wrong the location with her 2 daughters."

According to the affidavit, erstwhile Portelli — an cause with Customs and Border Protection and JFK Airport successful New York — returned to enactment connected Dec. 18, 2025, helium was instantly called into his supervisor's bureau astatine the behest of Florida investigators. It seemingly didn't instrumentality agelong for Portelli to confess.

"[O]nce Angelo entered the office, helium instantly removed his agency-issued handgun and placed it connected the table," the probable origin affidavit said. "Angelo broke down and began crying and advised that helium was successful Florida astatine the opening of December for abrogation with his woman (Natalie) visiting his father. While there, Angelo's woman stated, 'she wanted to spot the location of the pistillate that helium cheated connected [her] with.'"

The reddish Sorrento allegedly utilized by the mates seemingly belonged to Lopez-Portelli's father, Angel Diaz. He allegedly told investigators that his girl and son-in-law were successful possession of the car astatine the clip of the incident, and that "they were successful Florida for their anniversary."

Diaz besides showed investigators substance messages purportedly from his girl successful which she "stated not to speech to anyone oregon she could spell to jail."

Florida jailhouse records amusement that Lopez-Portelli and Portelli are some successful custody of the Orange County Department of Corrections. Portelli has a proceeding scheduled for July 9; nary aboriginal proceeding was indicated for Lopez-Portelli astatine the clip of publication.