Man dragged girlfriend to trailer in strawberry field where he stabbed her to death, then murdered her 4-year-old daughter in bathtub

A antheral who murdered his woman successful a trailer connected a Florida strawberry tract and past went wrong the location and stabbed her 4-year-old girl to death successful the bathtub received the eventual punishment.

Angel Gabriel Cuz-Choc, 33, was sentenced to decease for the murders of Amalia Coc Choc de Pec, 36, and her girl Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc. A assemblage convicted Cuz-Choc of first-degree murder and recommended helium person the decease punishment implicit beingness successful prison. Cuz-Choc entered the state unlawfully successful 2023 and is simply a fishy successful 2 abstracted murders successful his autochthonal Guatemala, section Fox affiliate WTVT reported.

The killings happened connected April 24, 2024, astatine a mobile location successful the 3700 artifact of Sumner Road successful Dover, extracurricular Tampa. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office received a telephone astatine astir 5:30 p.m. regarding a dormant female, deputies said successful a news release.

Authorities recovered the broadside of the mobile location smeared with a bloody handprint from the woman, suggesting she had been warring for her life, trying to flight the violence, officials said. She was recovered dormant wrong a trailer successful the backyard "in her ain puddle of blood," and the miss dormant wrong the home, officials said.

The fishy had tally away, prompting a manhunt that ended aft 18 hours erstwhile a constabulary canine recovered the fishy adjacent successful dense vegetation, an apprehension successful which the sheriff's bureau released body camera footage. Authorities accidental the fishy became enraged erstwhile his woman came location aboriginal than expected

"This is not a condemnation anyone celebrates. This was 1 of the astir horrific crimes we've ever seen successful Hillsborough County. The lawsuit has present travel afloat circle. Nothing tin bring Amalia and Estrella back, but we bash judge we've gotten justness for them and their surviving household members successful Guatemala," State Attorney Suzy Lopez said successful a statement.

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Judge Michelle Sisco became affectional during the sentencing proceeding portion describing the facts of the execution which she called "heinous, atrocious and cruel," section NBC affiliate WFLA reported.

"[Estrella] sustained astatine slightest six important injuries to her body, 2 to her cervix and 4 to her close hand," Sisco reportedly said. "The tribunal finds that the grounds introduced to proceedings established that [Estrella] was live and conscious erstwhile she received the weapon wounds, arsenic demonstrated by Dr. Webb's grounds that the wounds to [Estrella's] hands were antiaircraft wounds from grabbing a blade."

Jason Kandel contributed to this report