While officers are in a high-speed
vehicle pursuit chasing a suspect who
just attacked and stabbed a family, one
other officer makes contact with the
victims.
 Ma'am, I got the white van.
It's going northbound.
 Ma'am, I haven't
been able to make contact with the
victim or complain it. As of now,
they're all running away.
 Orlando Police
Department. Let me see your hands.
 Let
me see your hands. Hey,
we're just going to watch it for now.
Orlando Police Department.
 How many
people do you have with you there?
They all just ran into this uh residence
here at
Orlando Police Department.
 Orlando
Police Department.
Sorry, they all went inside the house.
Doors locked. There's blood outside of
the door. Nobody's uh making contact
with me. Orlando Police Department.
All right, come out here.
All right.
 What's going on?
Okay. Okay. I see that.
 All right. Who
How many people are injured?
Do you have a stabbing victim?
10. All right. I'm 102. Looks what we
have.
 Stab victims. We need EMS.
 One.
How many victims? How many victims?
They were stabbed. It sounds like it's a
bunch of murder.
I know. I know. I need her here.
 Did you
get cut as well?
 Yeah.
 He go.
 Okay.
Okay. Where?
 I saw him. We have him
right now. Hold on.
Is anybody else here?
Anybody else here that got stabbed?
Have a seat, ma'am. Have a seat.
Do you know who this guy is? Heyo.
What happened?
 I don't know.
 What do you
mean? What happened? No, you know
 he he
he got the
 Okay. So, he was drink
one guy.
 Yeah. Yeah.
 Okay. Why?
 I don't
know.
[Applause]
We are Listen, I understand right now we
have a lot of things going on. Okay.
 All
right. It's a dead end here. He's going
through the park.
She has a stab wound to the neck.
 Is she
the only one that stabbed? No, he was
stabbed as well.
 So, the suspect's just
a friend that comes to the house. He was
drunk and he attacked him.
 Going through
the middle of the park still south. All
right. Single floor into a tree. Stand
by.
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Get the car. Get the car. Hey, get the
car. Go. Go.
Don't mind shirt.
 Hope my rip shirt.
Blue jeans.
All right. He's in the pond here.
 Slow
down. We have eyes on him in the pond.
Do you have EMS coming 97 for um bar
scene if you can expedite them?
 Where
the [ __ ] is their best?
 We are waiting.
I understand.
That was your That's my mom. Ma'am, we
are waiting for them to get here. Okay,
give us a moment. There are multiple
 in
the middle.
 Just stay with the car.
 Get
the lead.
 It's leaking. It's leaking.
 Be
careful. Case, do you copy? K9, can you
come up here?
 K9, can you come up here?
Strip shirt.
Blue jeans.
 K9's going down.
Get over here now. Start swimming over
here.
Do me a favor. I need very important. I
need her ID, her passport, whatever it
is that identifies her. Can you get that
for me now, please?
 What do we have so
far?
 All right, we got uh So, we have
victim victim one, victim two. Um
assault, deadly weapon.
Suspect drunk.
Swim over here.
 Come to me now.
Come here. You won't get bit if you come
over here. Come over here. You will not
get bit. You'll be fine.
 Come on. You
better come to this side.
 Over here. You
better come to this side.
 Come over
here.
 Back up, guys.
 Come over here to
the shore. Okay. If you do anything
other than what I get dog,
okay,
 one more with hands.
 If he doesn't
come, he's coming.
 I'm coming up behind
you
all the way up here.
behind you.
 Climb up on this shore right
here.
Come here towards the light.
 Towards the
light. Let him come up. Let him come up.
Keep coming up here.
 He can still be
armed, guys.
Treat him like he's armed until he gets
out.
 Come on. All the way up here.
 You
can come up here now.
Stand up.
We got him here.
 Keep coming all the way
up.
Yeah. I got
inside, please.
You can open it. See if there's an
unlock button,
 dude. This
 just open the
door.
 All right,
 here we go.
Open. Unlock it.
 Oh, there's blood
everywhere.
 Unlock button.
 No, it could
be in the center. I don't see it.
Keep coming up. All the way up. Keep
coming all the way up. You can crawl up
here.
 Keep drawing up here. Put your
hands up in the air,
 guys. Both hands.
Up till you got lethal.
 Hands up. Hands
up. Hands up.
 Put your gun away. Put
your gun away.
 I got it.
Come on, dude. Get up.
 Second set of
hands.
 Dude, come up.
 Dude, come up. My
foot.
 Yeah, my foot's
 Come on, guys.
Guys, yank them up. Yank them up. Just
minutes ago, the suspect could be heard
gasping for air. And now he goes limp as
he struggles to return back on land,
leading officers to become concerned
that he may have drowned.
 One, two,
three.
One, two, three.
One. He's stuck over there.
 One, two,
three.
[ __ ]
behind
your back.
He's bleeding. He's bleeding.
 Where?
Give me a light.
 Not yet.
Did you say he's secure?
He's secure.
 Tell me what happened.
 I
don't know.
 How do you know? How do you
not know what happened? You got stabbed.
Um, so go to to to the back
 to the back.
Yeah.
 Are you talking about Leonardo?
 He
jumped into the house as Vbacking.
 No,
he's bleeding from somewhere.
 Oh, right
here. [ __ ]
Hey, you guys.
He's got something here.
 He's shaking.
You got drugs in you.
Guys, are we looking for anybody else?
Who is this guy to you guys? Does he
rent the room here?
 He was supposed to
be a family friend.
 A family friend?
When you say family friend, what does
that mean?
 It's just
 Is he a cousin? Is
he
 No, he's not. He's not. He's not
related.
 He's not related by Has he been
staying here in an efficiency?
 We've
just been letting him crash here.
 Okay.
How long has he been crashing here for?
Like 2 weeks.
 2 weeks. Okay. All right.
Does he pay rent here? Does he like live
here?
 He doesn't exactly live here. He
just helps around. Like if if you need
groceries, like
 does he is he in a
relationship with Is that your mom?
 Yes,
that's my mom.
 Is he in a relationship?
Is he your stepdad?
 No, he's has nothing
to do with
 All right. So, he's not in
that type of relationship. Okay.
 No.
 All
right. When all this happened, did you
see anything?
 I just I heard my mom
screaming my name, screaming for my
help, and I just went and saw and I just
saw my mom on the floor. Like there was
like in the room in her room in her
bedroom.
 Yes. On her on her bedroom
floor. see him with a weapon.
 He was He
was stabbing her. I don't know which
one. I I couldn't tell.
 I couldn't I
couldn't tell. I couldn't
 I know it's a
lot. I know it's a lot. I'm asking you a
lot of questions. Does he ever sleep in
that bedroom with your mom?
 No, I
 was
your mom sleeping. Was everybody asleep
in the house before this happened?
 We We
were watching TV. It was a normal
Tuesday.
 While you were watching TV,
where was your mom at? In your room.
 In
the room watching TV as well.
 Okay. And
then when he came into the house,
 cuz he
has access to the house, he has like a
key or anything.
 Yes.
 Okay.
So, he came into the house. He just from
your understanding, he just went
straight into that room.
 I don't I don't
know if that's what he did. I was I was
in my room. My door was closed.
 Okay.
Are there any cameras here in the house?
Any security cameras? Anything like
that?
 No. Okay.
 Any other weapons inside
the house that you're aware of for what
he might have used?
 No.
 Your mom's on
her way to the hospital. She's going to
be in good hands. Okay. Do you have any
questions?
 I just want to see my mom.
 I
just hang out here with your friend.
Okay. Thank you.
 Yeah. He's breathing
here. He's steaming, too. Hey, can you
stand up?
 Oh, we can get the ambulance.
You need a naran.
 Nan. Yeah.
 It's in my
truck. You guys have one handy?
 Yeah.
She's got it.
 Put him on his side. This
way. Onto his side.
No. He's supposed to be on his back. Put
him on his back.
 Yeah.
 And put his uh
head back.
 The whole thing.
 The whole
thing.
 Oh my god.
CC.
All right, let's get him up. Relax him
up. Stand up.
All right, let's walk back over there.
Dad,
he's throwing up.
 He's going to throw
up. We'll get you some.
So, this guy ran from us, crashed, and
went to the the pond over there. We got
him out and he looks like he's on uh
overdosing. We gave him a narcan
already. Still breathing and all that
stuff
right now.
 My hand hurts.
My hand hurts.
All victims made full recoveries from
their stab wounds and the suspect,
Leonardo, was charged with two counts of
attempted murder with a weapon, fleeing,
eluding, and resisting without violence.
Court records indicate that
approximately 2 years later, he took a
plea deal, pleading guilty to attempted
seconddegree murder and three other
charges. He was sentenced to 11 years in
prison, followed by 5 years of
probation. The officer outside already
locates blood. So, you already know that
this one was off the rails before the
first officer even arrived because he
had stabbing victims and a possible
language barrier, and the suspect was
gone. Now, other units did have eyes on
the suspect, but he wasn't slowing down.
This call was already loaded with
emotion and danger, but when that call
turns into a blood bath, every second
feels like an hour. And at this point,
the medics were not there yet. And in
that kind of trauma, minutes matter.
That delay, no matter the cause, only
fused the anger and helplessness of
family members watching their loved ones
possibly bleed out. Now, officers did
close in on the suspect, and he was
caught shortly after. But the real
battle was back at the house. And this
is what cops have to deal with because
they have to absorb the rage, fear, and
helplessness that comes with certain
calls. Cuz imagine trying to get
pertinent information out of a
distraught family member cuz it's
heart-wrenching to watch someone's world
fall apart. And I've actually had to
turn into a counselor in a moment's
notice just to try to calm a person
down. Now, the suspect may have been
caught, but trust me, the damage was
already done. and no arrest and rewind
what that family had to endure. And when
something like this happens in your own
home, you rarely feel safe again.