'I'm going to f—ing kill you today': Man shot roommate because ex-wife was 'attracted' to him, blamed victim for divorce, police say

A 56-year-old Florida antheral is accused of shooting his roommate aft accusing his ex-wife of divorcing him due to the fact that she was physically attracted to the victim.

Ramon Lauzurique-Gonzalez was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with 1 number of second-degree attempted murder with a firearm, records show.

According to a probable origin affidavit, the unit erupted astatine a residence connected Southwest 10th Street wherever the defendant, his ex-wife, the victim, and the victim's woman had each been surviving unneurotic for astir 3 months. Police said the defendant's ex-wife and the victim's woman are sisters.

The hostility reportedly reached a breaking constituent astatine astir 4:30 p.m. erstwhile the suspect began arguing with his ex-wife astir the origin of their divorce.

"The suspect was jealous, stating to [his ex-wife] that she divorced him due to the fact that she was attracted to the victim," the affidavit says. "The suspect past exited the premises from the beforehand door, stating successful Spanish, 'I'm going to lick a problem.'"

He returned a abbreviated clip later, entering done the southbound entranceway of the premises.

The victim's woman told detectives she was successful the room preparing nutrient for her husband, who had precocious arrived location from work, erstwhile she saw the suspect exit his chamber brandishing a achromatic handgun. The suspect allegedly pointed the limb astatine the unfortunate and shouted, "I'm going to f—ing termination you today," according to the affidavit.

Lauzurique-Gonzalez fired 1 round, striking the unfortunate successful the close enarthrosis and causing him to illness to the ground, constabulary wrote.

When the unfortunate stood backmost up and attempted to disarm the gunman, Lauzurique-Gonzalez allegedly struck him connected the near broadside of the caput with the firearm. Both women successful the location said they attempted to drawback the suspect to restrain him during the struggle.

The unfortunate was yet capable to wrestle the handgun distant from Lauzurique-Gonzalez, which helium past tossed toward the beforehand doorway to support it astatine a "safe distance" from the suspect earlier fleeing the scene. Officers aboriginal recovered the achromatic handgun adjacent the northbound entranceway of the apartment.

Police located the suspect adjacent Southwest 34th Avenue and Southwest 7th Street, conscionable a fewer blocks from wherever the shooting took place.

The unfortunate and some witnesses aboriginal positively identified the suspect successful sequential photographic lineups. While the fishy waived his law rights and agreed to talk with detectives, the circumstantial contented of that speech has been redacted from nationalist records.

Lauzurique-Gonzalez is presently being held astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond. It was not instantly wide erstwhile helium was scheduled to instrumentality to court.