Man beat woman, pregnant with his child, with bat in masked ambush

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A Lauderhill guy, dressed in a ski masks and wearing a baseball bat, ambushed a lady in the car parking zone of a Pompano Beach condo advanced, deputies stated; she used to be 5 months pregnant with his kid.

The incident took place Thursday close to the 1200 block of South Dixie Highway West, in keeping with an arrest document got by means of Local 10 News on Tuesday.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest document, the girl used to be strolling in her condo advanced when the masked guy “began to speedwalk toward her with a red bat.”

He stated not anything as he beat her on her head and palms with the steel bat and kicked her abdomen with his toes, deputies stated. They stated she would most effective in finding out later that the person attacking her used to be the daddy of her kid.

“He was going crazy!”, she instructed BSO Detective So Hyon Kim from her health facility mattress at Broward Health North, in keeping with the document.

The sufferer instructed Kim that she didn’t struggle again however pleaded with Prevaly to prevent, the detective wrote. During the assault, she stated her iPhone fell to the bottom and she or he instructed Siri to name 911, at which level Prevaly grabbed it an try to stay government from responding.

However, deputies stated neighbors heard the commotion and the sufferer’s pleas for assist. One referred to as 911, they stated, whilst every other chased after Prevaly, who ran after neighbors got here out.

The document states with the neighbor operating after him, Prevaly hopped a fence. The neighbor additionally jumped the fence and adopted him.

Deputies stated Prevaly threw the purple bat and a cellular phone on the guy in an try to stay him off his tail, however the neighbor would catch him and combat him to the bottom, at which level Prevaly pleaded, “You don’t understand. I know her. Let me go, I’ll pay you, man.”

The neighbor didn’t let him pass and deputies took Prevaly into custody.

The sufferer suffered spinal fractures and a deep laceration that required sewing, in keeping with the document.

Kim wrote that she used to be in “complete shock” after learning that Prevaly used to be the person at the back of the masks. According to the document, the sufferer stated she’s recognized him since she used to be 8 and started so far him when he used to be launched from jail; they’re additionally co-workers. The girl, who has 4 different youngsters, now not by means of Prevaly, stated she didn’t live with him.

Deputies stated Prevaly, after to start with learning the sufferer used to be wearing his kid, had instructed her he used to be “not ready” and “did not welcome the news.”

Still, they stated he accompanied her to a being pregnant check-up in Boca Raton on Feb. 16. The girl instructed deputies that the day sooner than the assault, Prevaly had referred to as her up “ranting about having to pay child support.”

Prevaly, in an interview with detectives, denied attacking the girl, the document states, announcing any individual else did it.

“Why am I hurting her for?” Kim stated he requested. “She’s carrying my son.”

According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Prevaly’s unencumber from jail got here in 2020. In March 2011, a pass judgement on sentenced him to greater than 10 years in jail on 4 theft fees and one rate of annoyed battery with a dangerous weapon.

Now, in addition to the tried homicide rate, Prevaly faces a witness tampering rate for hindering the girl’s skill to name 911, in keeping with the arrest document.

He’s being held with out bond in the BSO Main Jail as of Tuesday.