LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Florida prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing a Lake County woman last year and leaving her body along a Mount Dora road.
A grand jury indicted Shahidul Islam for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his sister-in-law, Monica Islam.
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Detectives believe Islam left the Eustis convenience store where she worked with her brother-in-law before her body was found in May 2025.
Detectives later found Monica Islam’s DNA, a bullet, and other evidence inside Shahidul Islam’s car.
He was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on a federal immigration warrant after Islam fled to New York.
Detectives believe an ongoing dispute over some property in their home country of Bangladesh was a motive in the killing.
Prosecutors say they’ll seek the death penalty under a Florida law that applies to certain capital murder cases involving people who are in the country illegally.