A 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Venezuela is facing an attempted first-degree premeditated murder charge after Martin County deputies say he attacked a woman on Stuart Beach and repeatedly held her head underwater, believing he had killed her.
Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek identified the suspect as Said Alexander Hernandez-Gonzalez, a Port St. Lucie resident whose work visa expired and who is now in the country illegally.
“This is an extremely alarming case,” Budensiek said. “Random acts of violence like this are some of the most difficult crimes to solve — and that’s exactly what this was.”
According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 11 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, to a disturbance call at Stuart Beach, located at 889 NE Ocean Boulevard.
Budensiek said the victim had gone to the beach alone earlier that evening “to clear her head” and was walking north along the shoreline toward the Tiger Shores area while on the phone with her sister when the attack happened.
“About five minutes after passing him, she was brutally attacked,” Budensiek said. “She was grabbed around the throat, dragged into the ocean, and held down as she struggled to break free.”
Investigators say the attacker knocked the victim’s phone out of her hand and threw it into the ocean, cutting off her call for help. The victim’s sister later told deputies she heard screaming and sounds of a struggle before the call disconnected around 10:56 p.m.
Budensiek said the suspect held the woman underwater for several minutes as she tried to time her breaths with the waves. At some point, the victim lost consciousness. --->READ MORE HERE
Newly released 911 audio is giving more insight into the chaotic moments immediately after a woman was violently attacked and held underwater at Stuart Beach.
According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 11 p.m. on Feb. 12, after the victim — who had gone to the beach alone “to clear her head” — was attacked while walking north along the shoreline and talking on the phone with her sister. Minutes after passing a man on the beach, she was “brutally attacked,” grabbed by the throat, dragged into the ocean, and held underwater until she lost consciousness. Deputies say her phone was knocked from her hand and thrown into the ocean, disconnecting the call for help.
The 911 call
The newly released 911 recording captures the victim’s relative urgently reporting that her sister had been talking to the woman when she suddenly began “screaming and screaming” before the call went dead. The caller said the sister tried repeatedly to reach her with no answer. He told dispatchers the incident happened just minutes earlier and that he was speeding toward the beach, adding that he was armed.
"Her sister was talking to her on the phone and her sister just called me, told me she was talking and all of a sudden she started screaming and screaming and it sounded her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone and then the phone went dead," according to the concerned caller. --->READ MORE HERE
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