FLORIDA
MAN STOPS TO HELP STRANDED MOTORIST WHO TURNED OUT TO BE HITMAN HIRED TO KILL
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When police found Carlos
Cruz-Echevarria dead near his home last Veterans Day, he was lying face down in a ditch,
shot multiple times in the head. Beside him was a truck stuck in the mud.
Later, the 60-year-old army veteran’s car was found several miles away,
torched. It seemed like a random, senseless killing: authorities thought Cruz-Echevarria had
been robbed and left for dead after stopping to help a stranger on a Daytona Beach roadside. But a year long
investigation has revealed that it was anything but random.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Department
arrested two men and a woman this week in what they are calling a murder-for-hire plot to keep Cruz-Echaverria from
testifying in a road rage case. The three
have been charged with first degree murder, and prosecutors are considering the
death penalty, sheriff Michael Chitwood said in a
Friday news conference.
“This is one of the most heinous,
despicable, cowardly acts that I’ve ever witnessed,” Mr Chitwood said.
“Somebody’s gonna pay the ultimate price.”
Carlos
Cruz-Echevarria was found dead near his home last Veterans Day, lying face down
in a ditch, shot multiple times in the head
The killing was set in motion more than
six months earlier, investigators say. Cruz-Echevarria honked at the car in
front of him as it stood still at a green light in May 2017. The other driver,
Kelsey McFoley, 28, pulled up beside Cruz-Echevarria at the next intersection
and brandished a gun, investigators said at the news conference.
Cruz-Echevarria managed to write down the car’s license plate number and picked
McFoley out of a lineup later, authorities say.
News Source: independent.co.uk
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