OSCEOLA, Fla – A man is accused of shooting into his ex-girlfriend’s car while she was sitting in the driver’s seat and then fleeing with a 4-year-old child in his vehicle, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies were called about 5 a.m. April 4 to reports of shots fired and an aggravated battery on Fortune Road, where they met with a 27-year-old woman who reported an altercation with her ex-boyfriend, the sheriff’s office said.
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Investigators said the suspect first confronted the victim at a bar around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, physically attacked her and continued to harass her by phone after leaving.
According to the sheriff’s office, the suspect later confronted the victim in a parking lot off Fortune Road while she was in her vehicle and fired multiple rounds into the car. Deputies said the suspect also battered the victim, stole her cellphone and fled in a vehicle with his 4-year-old daughter in the back seat.
Detectives located the suspect at his residence Saturday around 1:15 p.m., deputies said. The sheriff’s office said the suspect fled on a motorcycle at a high rate of speed before abandoning it and running into a wooded area near Cricket Cradle Drive.
Deputies contacted the suspect’s mother, who convinced him to surrender, the sheriff’s office said. The suspect was arrested and taken to the Osceola County Jail, where he is being held with his bond set at $22,500.
Josue Emmanuel Figueroa Jr., 27, faces serval charges including attempted murder, aggravated battery, discharging a firearm in public, armed burglary, child neglect, grand theft, criminal mischief and robbery with a weapon, deputies said.