CUTLER BAY, Fla. – A person is going through a murder charge after police stated they found the body of 39-year-old Igor Ernesto Ortiz within an engulfed pickup truck in Cutler Bay Thursday afternoon.
First responders arrived on the scene positioned round Old Cutler Road and Southwest 92nd Avenue in Curler Bay at roughly 1:45 p.m. Thursday.
Authorities stated a person, who they recognized as 35-year-old Randall Lautzenheiser, was once detained in a while after the fireplace was once put out.
One witness, who requested to not be recognized, informed Local 10 News that he witnessed all of the incident.
“The were arguing, fighting..and then fire,” he stated.
When police arrived on the scene, Lautzenheiser was once found in the automobile parking space with burn marks on his forearms and no blouse on, and was once taken into custody, in line with his arrest file.
Lautzenheiser were noticed previous in the day sitting within the truck with the sufferer and the 2 had been noticed concerned in a verbal altercation, in line with police.
Lautzenheiser was once additionally noticed via gasoline pumps on the Chevron filling up a small can of gas and returning to the sufferer’s truck, the file stated.
Another verbal argument was once heard and a short while later the truck was once noticed engulfed in flames, and Lautzenheiser was once noticed working clear of the truck, in line with police.
When he was once interviewed via investigators, Lautzenheiser informed officials he went to the gasoline station, put $5 at the counter and acquired a can of beer and gasoline, the file stated.
Police stated Laurzenheiser claimed Ortiz was once within the truck and smoking a cigarette and by hook or by crook the gasoline can ignited, the file mentioned.
Lautzenheiser was once arrested Friday and booked into TGK the place he’s being held with out bond.
He is going through one depend each and every of first-degree murder and first-degree arson.
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