New video shows stabbing suspect force his way into Homestead subdivision before attack

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Newly-obtained surveillance video shows a person accused of stabbing a lady force his way into a Homestead subdivision previous to the attack.

The housebreaking and stabbing had been reported in a while after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on the Waterstone neighborhood, positioned within the 3700 block of Northeast tenth Court.

Surveillance video confirmed a safety guard allowed Jose Armel Saavedra, 24, thru the principle gate of the advanced after the sufferer, who had simply gotten house after an evening out along with her girlfriends.

The video shows the suspect now not letting a 2d layer of safety — a downed crossing arm and a locked safety gate — prevent him.

Investigators mentioned Saavedra adopted the sufferer into her house after which attacked her, punching and stabbing her a number of instances. The lady’s husband, who used to be sound asleep in some other room, heard his spouse’s screams, chased the person out, and referred to as the police.

Detectives mentioned some other clip shows Saavedra working from the house before falling thru the similar locked gates the place he made his way in. He then will get again into his SUV and drives away.

But it wouldn’t take lengthy for the police to trace him down and arrest him after a Homestead detective known the suspect as Saavedra. The detective mentioned he up to now purchased footwear from Saavedra on OfferUp.

Police mentioned Saavedra denied that he used to be the individual observed within the video and denied being within the town of Homestead when the attack came about.

Saavedra used to be being held with out bond on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

“Mr. Saavedra has pleaded not guilty, and looks forward to defending his case in court,” his lawyer, Carter Hillstrom, informed Local 10 News in an e mail.

Local 10 News has reached out to the valuables control corporate to be told extra about Waterstone’s safety protocol and what’s being executed to stay citizens protected. The corporate had but to reply as of this newsletter’s e-newsletter.