CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – A Coral Springs man is scheduled for a Thursday court docket listening to after government say he “began to act weird” after smoking a “THC vape pen,” then disrobed and stabbed his father.
Police arrested Alexander Figueroa, 21, on an tried homicide fee Saturday morning, consistent with court docket paperwork acquired by means of Local 10 News on Wednesday. He’s additionally charged with annoyed battery with a dangerous weapon.
According to an arrest document from the Coral Springs Police Department, anyone advised police that after he and Figueroa vaped previous within the night time, the pair went for a stroll across the group. The redacted document doesn’t specify whether or not that particular person was once his father — the eventual sufferer — or a witness.
Police mentioned right through the dialog, Figueroa requested the individual, “Where do you want to go, heaven or hell?”
The document states the individual were given scared and have shyed away from answering the query. Then, police mentioned, Figueroa advised him, “Let’s take off our shirts.”
“(Redacted) didn’t want to take off his shirt but said that Alexander took off his shirt and threw it on the ground,” detectives wrote within the document.
Figueroa then started performing “aggressively” when the male mentioned he didn’t wish to stroll a long way, police mentioned, then grabbed his telephone and smashed it.
The particular person took the damaged telephone again house and Figueroa started strolling across the group, inflicting involved relations to start in search of him, police mentioned.
After they positioned Figueroa and were given him right into a automotive, he “began acting erratic and (tried) to kick out the window,” the document states.
After parking within the storage, Figueroa “ran into the house” and “locked the door behind him,” police wrote. Two other folks, whose identities had been redacted from the document, went to the entrance door, the place they “could see Alexander through the window, naked, screaming and yelling,” consistent with the document.
“The other family members run to the driveway where Alexander begins attacking and stabbing (redacted),” police wrote. “(Figueroa’s father) intervenes and stumbles to the ground at which point Alexander begins stabbing (him). (Redacted) then intervenes and is again attacked by Alexander causing her to fall to the ground where he repeatedly punches her in the face.”
Police mentioned Figueroa stopped attacking them and as a substitute attempted to assault the circle of relatives canine ahead of probably the most sufferers was once ready to run to a neighbor’s area and speak to 911.
The document states that officials would find Figueroa’s father in a master suite, mendacity down “with a laceration to his stomach” and “his bowels exposed.”
“(He) stated that his son Alexander was the person (who) stabbed him and that Alexander had been having some mental issues for a while,” police wrote.
Police arrested Figueroa and took him to the Broward Main Jail, the place he remained held with out bond as of Wednesday. A pass judgement on ordered he obtain a psychological well being screening.
Thursday’s listening to is a state’s movement for pre-trial detention. According to Broward court docket data, it’s scheduled for 9 a.m. in entrance of Judge Andrew Siegel.
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