ORLANDO, Fla. – An arrest has been made in connection with a shooting that left a 70-year-old woman critically injured at an Orlando bus stop earlier this month, and a newly released arrest warrant affidavit reveals details about the attack.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Kevin Argenis Millares, 27, fled to New York shortly after the June 8 shooting in the 1000 block of Egan Drive, near Hager Way, in Orlando’s Azalea Park neighborhood.
According to the affidavit, the victim told deputies she was on her daily walk through her neighborhood when she noticed an unfamiliar man walking toward her. She turned away from him near the bus stop — and he shot her three times in the back. She told deputies she did not know the man and had no idea why he targeted her.
The victim was transported to the hospital in critical condition, where she was taken into surgery.
A nearby witness told detectives he spotted a shirtless man wearing black shorts acting suspiciously, went inside to retrieve his firearm, and returned outside just in time to watch the suspect shoot the woman three times in the back before fleeing eastbound on Hager Way, the affidavit states.
Detectives obtained surveillance footage from multiple homes showing the suspect walking through the neighborhood before the attack. During a canvas of Faber Drive, multiple witnesses — including a resident and a realtor connected to the property — reviewed the footage and independently identified the man as Kevin Millares, who lived at 800 Faber Drive.
A SWAT team served a search warrant at the home but Millares was gone. Inside, investigators found a loaded Hornady .380 magazine and a box of the same ammunition in the kitchen — matching the three shell casings recovered at the scene. A pair of black shorts and black-and-white slides found in the master bedroom matched what the suspect was seen wearing in the surveillance footage, the affidavit states.
The U.S. Marshals Service located and arrested Millares in New York on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. He is being held at Rikers Island while awaiting extradition.