Florida man accused of killing girlfriend’s mother on her 93rd birthday, authorities say

A Florida man is accused of killing his girlfriend’s mom at a retirement facility Sunday on her 93rd birthday, based on authorities. 

“It is a tragic and heinous case, and our ideas are along with her household and her family members,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina stated throughout a Thursday information convention. 

Javier Rosado Martínez, 54, was arrested Wednesday on a first-degree homicide cost within the dying of Dolores Padilla Marrero, whose physique was discovered Monday at St. Joseph Backyard Courts, a retirement group about 10 miles east of downtown Orlando. 

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Relations described Padilla Marrero as a religious Catholic who was at all times prepared to assist others, Mina stated. She leaves behind 4 youngsters, 11 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.

“Sunday was Dolores’s 93rd birthday, and sadly late that night she was brutally murdered by somebody she knew, somebody she had gone out of her means to assist,” Mina added. “And that particular person was 54-year-old Javier Rosado Martínez.”

Orange County Sheriff John Mina holds up an image of Dolores Padilla Marrero throughout a press convention on Thursday
(Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace)

On Sunday, a resident on the retirement group seen a person, later recognized as Martínez, making an attempt to realize entry to the ability by way of a keypad. The resident stated they let the person in and later that evening, a neighbor heard a male voice asking to be allowed contained in the sufferer’s residence, an arrest warrant acknowledged, based on the Orlando Sentinel. 

Martínez had arrived on the facility after getting right into a combat along with his on-again, off-again girlfriend who thought he was on medication on the time, stated Murder Sgt. Joe Covelli throughout the information convention. 

Relations stated they dropped Padilla Marrero off on the facility at 8 p.m., on Sunday and did a well-being verify Monday after she did not reply her cellphone. 

Once they entered the residence, they discovered the sufferer laying bare on the mattress along with her torso coated by a blanket and her face coated with a pillow, authorities stated. 

A health worker decided that the reason for dying was strangulation and blunt drive trauma to her torso, Covelli stated. He famous the blunt drive trauma was cracked ribs. 

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Throughout an investigation, authorities stated a horn necklace that Martínez normally wears was discovered wrapped in a shirt subsequent to Padilla Marrero’s useless physique. 

Joe Covelli, a Murder Sergeant on the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace holds up an image of the necklace throughout a press convention on Thursday.
(Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace)

Martínez was later apprehended at a residence in Casselberry, Florida, the place authorities stated they discovered objects linking him to murder, together with the necklace and keys to the sufferer’s residence. 

Whereas Martínez didn’t confess to killing Padilla Marrero, he informed authorities he was on medication and “blacked out” throughout the incident, Covelli stated.

Martínez and his girlfriend lived on the retirement facility with Padilla Marrero till January when Martinez moved into an argument with one other resident, the Orlando Sentinel reported. After the argument, the resident wrote a letter to Padilla Marrero warning that Martinez could not keep there anymore, Covelli added. 

Covelli famous that Padilla Marrero would usually provide her youngsters a spot to remain for per week or two.

“Horrific crime to be 93 years outdated, to go your complete life and that is the way it ends,” he stated.

Martínez is being held within the Orange County Jail with no bond.