VALRICO, Fla. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating an obvious murder-suicide after they are saying a person “executed” his estranged spouse’s new boyfriend inside a house, then doubtless took his personal life inside a car that was discovered on hearth.
What we all know:
At a information convention on Wednesday morning, Sheriff Chad Chronister mentioned Phillip Cordova, 51, just lately realized that his estranged spouse had been courting one other man for the previous three months.
Cordova despatched his spouse textual content messages over the previous a number of days threatening to set himself on hearth and take his personal life, in accordance with Chronister.
Chronister mentioned dispatchers obtained two 911 calls shortly earlier than 4 a.m. Wednesday from a house within the 2400 block of Drake Elm Terrace in Valrico: one from Cordova’s spouse and one other from the estranged couple’s 12-year-old son, who was hiding in a closet upstairs.
“Emergency name takers on the estranged spouse’s telephone hear her husband inform her new boyfriend ‘I’m going to kill you,’ after which hear a number of gunshots,” Chronister mentioned.
Deputies arrived on the house about seven minutes after the preliminary name, Chronister mentioned, and located the boyfriend shot a number of instances inside the house together with a person who they consider to be Cordova inside a burning car close by.
“We really feel assured that [Cordova] is the one who took his personal life within the driveway,” Chronister mentioned, including that he did not need to affirm that with 100% certainty as a result of the physique is “burned past recognition.”
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating an obvious murder-suicide in a Valrico neighborhood.
Chronister additionally mentioned deputies safely obtained the “extraordinarily distraught” 12-year-old boy out of the home and reunited him together with his mom.
“We now have a younger boy who now, the concept of the household that he is recognized for 12 years, his household and his life have been shattered endlessly,” Chronister mentioned.
What we do not know:
The title of the person who was killed inside the house has not been launched as a result of his subsequent of kin haven’t but been notified, in accordance with Chronister.
The Supply: This story was written utilizing data from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace.
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