FLORIDA CITY, Fla. – Police arrested a Florida City man on two counts of attempted murder Tuesday after they said he stabbed his girlfriend of three decades after she confronted him about his drug use, then turned the knife on their daughter after she tried to intervene.
According to an arrest report from the Florida City Police Department, Oscar Zequera was arguing with his girlfriend “about him using drugs all day in the living room” just after 10 a.m.
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Police said she told Zequera that she was calling authorities, at which point he “grabbed a large knife and chased” her outside of their home in the 300 block of Northeast 12th Street.
The report states that when she tried to call 911, the 56-year-old slapped her cellphone from her hands, grabbed her and began to stab her “repeatedly.”
Police said when their daughter came out of the house to try to stop her father, he also began to stab her; a neighbor heard their screams and called 911.
Zequera “began to walk away from both victims while screaming obscenities at them with the knife in his hand,” police said, while his daughter “drove herself and her mother to the hospital.”
The pair would later be airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center. Police said Zequera’s girlfriend was critically wounded and “immediately” taken into surgery, while doctors treated their daughter in its trauma center.
Police said the woman, who also has another child with Zequera, remained in critical condition and was intubated.
Authorities said Zequera had blood stains on his clothes and was taken to Homestead Hospital for treatment before being taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Besides the attempted murder charges, the Cuban national faces two counts of using a weapon while committing a felony and one count of evidence tampering.
Zequera remained held in TGK without bond as of Wednesday morning, according to jail records.