Authorities reported that a Florida man killed his ex-girlfriend shortly after she filed a police report on him.
Robens Cesar, 41, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of 34-year-old Fridelene Daniel.
Daniel was murdered outside her apartment complex just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Her tragic death took place less than an hour after she filed a harrassment report against Cesar at the Boynton Beach Police Department.
Horrified family members listened on the phone while their loved one was allegedly gunned down by her ex-boyfriend. Surveillance and body camera footage showed Cesar was wearing a blue-gray T-shirt, green shorts, and had his dreadlocks pulled back in a ponytail.
Upon arriving to the crime scene, officers found Daniel already non responsive and cited her dead. Daniel was lying in the parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers found several spent shell casings near her body.
Meanwhile, Cesar’s black Honda had been spotted leaving the scene as police were arriving.
After officers caught up with Cesar, he admitted to the police that he and Daniel had split up and he wanted to get back together with her. However, she had refused multiple times and her calling the cops was the final straw for him.
“Cesar stated he couldn’t stand to see Fridelene with another man,” detectives wrote in the affidavit.
Daniel’s family members gave a terrifying account of the shooting in an interview to news media station WPEC. They said she was on the phone with a family member in Haiti when she pulled up to her apartment and said to someone “Oh did you bring a gun to kill me?”
The Boynton Police Department authorized an internal investigation into the incident.
“The loss of any life is a tragic event, and the Boynton Beach Police Department extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased,” according to a police press release. “Our hearts go out to all affected by this unfortunate incident.”
Neighbors told the outlet they heard a barrage of gunfire.
“It was like boom, boom and then it was a brief maybe like two-second pause I want to say and three or four more. We just kind of froze there for a moment,” neighbor Dawn Rosado said.
Cesar is at the Palm Beach County Jail without bond on a first-degree murder charge.
