ORLANDO, Fla. – A 27-year-old man accused of shooting a 70-year-old woman three times in the back at an Orlando bus stop is in the Orange County Jail.
Prosecutors are asking a judge to keep Kevin Millares locked up without bond until trial. Millares was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in New York after fleeing the Orlando area following the June 8 shooting.
According to court documents, Millares pleaded not guilty to first-degree attempted murder with a firearm, a capital felony.
A judge is expected to rule on pretrial detention on Tuesday.
Deputies said the victim was on her morning walk near the 1000 block of Egan Drive in Orlando’s Azalea Park neighborhood when she noticed an unfamiliar man walking toward her. She turned away from him near the bus stop. As she walked away, he shot her three times in the back.
She was taken to the hospital in critical condition and went into surgery.
According to court documents, a witness across the street told deputies he watched the suspect pass the victim, walk up behind her, and fire. After she fell to the ground, the suspect shot her two more times.
Detectives pulled surveillance footage from multiple homes showing the suspect walking through the neighborhood before the attack. A real estate agent connected to a nearby property reviewed the footage and identified the man as Kevin Millares, who lived at 800 Faber Drive — just blocks from the scene.
When a SWAT team served a search warrant at the home, Millares was gone. Inside, investigators found a loaded Hornady .380 magazine and a box of matching ammunition in the kitchen — the same caliber as the three shell casings recovered at the scene. Black shorts and sandals found in the master bedroom matched what the suspect was seen wearing in surveillance footage.
A K-9 unit tracked the suspect’s scent from the scene to just across the street from his address, court documents state.