Man brings shotgun to family pool day and annihilates his 6-year-old son and girlfriend — but doesn't go near his mother: Police

A Florida antheral blew distant his girlfriend, son and canine with a pump-action shotgun during a household excavation time successful his mom's gated assemblage — killing each 3 of them for nary evident reason, according to police.

Nicholas Novickis, 34, of Sarasota, walked retired to his mom's glass-roofed excavation patio past Saturday, May 23, wherever his lad Phoenix was swimming, "racked the shotgun" and past "shot him successful the head," according to a probable origin affidavit.

"Surveillance video captured Nicholas walking retired onto the lanai portion holding a shotgun," the affidavit says. "Prior to Phoenix being shot, the video shows Nicholas locomotion wrong from the lanai and Allie [his girlfriend] follows him. Allie past reappeared backmost connected the lanai earlier going backmost inside, whereby Nicholas reappeared connected the camera carrying the shotgun."

The affidavit says "at nary clip anterior to the shooting did determination look to beryllium an statement oregon immoderate benignant of disturbance." Novickis was aboriginal heard by constabulary making a "spontaneous utterance" during an interrogation wherever helium "stated his regret" and said it was "f—ed up" that helium killed his girlfriend, lad and dog.

"Currently, we don't person a motive astatine this point," a Sarasota County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told reporters during a property conference. "From what we understand, they really went to the location to aquatics successful the excavation and bask the day," the rep said.

Novickis brought his household to his mother's location successful Sarasota's gated Artistry vicinity for the excavation day. The ma was "upstairs dormant erstwhile the archetypal shots rang out," according to the SCSO spokesperson. She woke up to the dependable of solid breaking, per the affidavit.

"She went to the slider astatine the backmost lanai and saw Phoenix lasting adjacent the doorway," the affidavit states. "Nicholas past walked retired onto the lanai … racked the shotgun, and changeable Phoenix 1 clip successful the head, sidesplitting him."

Novickis' parent rapidly called 911, and portion connected the phone, helium allegedly changeable the canine and past dropped the shotgun. "[The mom] was capable to unafraid the shotgun," according to the affidavit. "As she moved done the residence, she observed that Allie had besides been shot. [Novickis' mother] was capable to fly the residence without injury."

Novickis' girlfriend, Allie, has the aforesaid past sanction arsenic him, but constabulary accidental they person nary records of them really being married. "There didn't look to beryllium thing retired of the ordinary," the SCSO spokesperson said, noting that Novickis has nary anterior transgression past different than a speeding offense.

Novickis was arrested and booked connected 2 first-degree murder charges and an carnal cruelty complaint for sidesplitting his dog, described successful the affidavit arsenic a "husky." He is scheduled to look astatine a pretrial detention proceeding connected Friday, May 29.