A man who allegedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend also used FaceTime after the attack to call the victim’s father to tell him what had happened while she lay dying on the floor, according to officials.
Marion County Sheriff’s deputies said there was an unusual conversation between Clark and the father. Officials said he could see his daughter lying a pool of blood, WESH reported.
Deputies said Clark, after stabbing Alleyne to death, escaped with her baby, prompting an AMBER Alert.
The officials also suspect that he attempted to set the woman’s house on fire. Investigators found a cloth hanging out of the oven and also detected a strong aroma of lighter fluid or another accelerant.
Clark eventually dropped the baby off at a family member’s home before driving to the Florida Keys, WFTV reported. There, he allegedly broke into a home before stealing several items.
Clark then set fire to his vehicle and another home, police said, according to the station. As a result, he suffered severe burns.
“Right now, we are evaluating his condition medically, or detectives are on scene with him in Monroe County and as soon as he is able to transported back to Marion, we will bring him here to face charges,” said Cecelia Koon, of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
“Now I must end my life just know she tried to kill me she walked into I’m srry [sic] to her family,” he reportedly wrote.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.