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Grandma leaving dollar store killed by total stranger: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:36:52 +0000

Insets: Hector David Sagastume Rivas and Camillia WIlliams (WXIA/YouTube). Background: The area where Camillia Williams’ body was found on March 13 (WXIA/YouTube).

A grandmother in Georgia was allegedly killed by a stranger who followed her home and then choked her to death — crushing her neck with his knees and full body weight while she was lying on the ground, according to police and family members, who describe the murder as “horrific” and “mind-blowing.”

Hector David Sagastume Rivas, 21, is accused of murdering 52-year-old Camillia Williams sometime between 11 p.m. on March 12 and 1 a.m. on March 13, according to an arrest warrant obtained by Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB. Police in Cobb County say Sagastume Rivas strangled Williams and then dumped her body on the side of a road in a yard near her home in Marietta, where it was found last Thursday morning in a place that her family says left them shocked.

“When they found her in the bushes, we looked at the bushes real close and it just so happens to be a Camellia bush.” Camillia’s brother, Arsene Williams, told WSB. “It’s hard to believe that this is really truly happening,” he said. “I don’t know how to absorb it right now.”

According to Arsene and Williams’ family, the Louisiana native called a relative the night before her body was found and said she was being followed by a man who they claim was Sagastume Rivas.

“She didn’t know him,” said Tony Williams, another one of Camillia’s brothers. “The night before she was at the dollar store and she told one of my nieces the guy was following her,” Arsene alleged.

Cops say a motive has not been provided by the suspect yet, but he has admitted to allegedly killing Williams. He told investigators the details about using his knees, claiming he did so after trying to take her life with a chokehold, to no avail.

“I just can’t imagine what someone would have in their heart to do that to somebody,” Williams’ niece, Danielle Williams, told local NBC affiliate WXIA. “What he’d done was really horrific,” she said. “It’s mind-blowing.”

Sagastume Rivas was being held Wednesday on charges of felony murder. He’s been denied bond and is awaiting his next court date.

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Florida woman allegedly shoved pregnant dollar store worker

homesafetytechpros — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:54:32 +0000

Inset: Maria Gritsaev (Flagler County Sheriff’s Office). Background: A Dollar General in Palm Coast, Fla. (Google Maps).

A Florida woman is behind bars for stealing from a Dollar General and attacking a pregnant woman, Sunshine State authorities say.

Maria Gritsaev, 34, stands accused of one count each of aggravated battery on a pregnant victim and petit theft by shoplifting, according to Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Jail records.

The incident occurred in early January, according to investigators. The defendant was arrested on Thursday.

On Jan. 2, deputies asked the public for help identifying the suspect. Law enforcement said the incident occurred at a store on Market Avenue at around 10:30 a.m. that day in Palm Coast – a medium-sized city roughly 30 miles north of Daytona Beach.

The suspect is said to have been a white woman who appeared to be in her late 40s. She was wearing a light-colored hat and scarf at the time. Police also noted she had long blonde hair – which authorities surmised might have been a wig. The wanted woman allegedly left the scene of the crime riding a silver mountain bike.

Law enforcement shared a blurry photograph of the alleged culprit seen from above when making their plea for citizen engagement. And, in the end, it was such engagement that moved the case forward.

“Here’s proof that just because the photo is bad doesn’t mean we can’t overcome it,” the sheriff’s office said in an Instagram post after an arrest was made. The post goes on to credit the defendant’s arrest to “an eagle-eyed social media user.”

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Speaking with law enforcement, the Dollar General employee said she is eight months pregnant and that Gritsaev “stole a lighter and pushed her,” according to a charging affidavit obtained by Law&Crime. The defendant allegedly frequents the store, the employee added.

“[The store employee] stated that the female (suspect) did not have enough money to purchase the lighter, which costs approximately $2.00,” the court document reads. “[The employee] advised that when the suspect attempted to walk out of the store with the lighter without paying for it, she stood in front of her. [The employee] advised that the suspect then grabbed her and then pushed her out of the way.”

The defendant for her part, admitted to being in the store that day but denied what happened with the lighter.

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“Maria advised she was at the Dollar General and paid for the lighter,” the affidavit goes on. “Maria advised that a female employee [redacted] stood in front of her at the entrance. Maria further advised that she did not push anyone. Maria further advised that she was able to leave the store after getting around the female employee [redacted] and left the area because she did not want to be involved in any confrontation.”

Law & Crime contacted the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office for additional details on this story, but no response was immediately forthcoming at the time of publication.

The defendant is being detained in the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on a combined $6,000 bond.

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Florida man squirted ‘unknown liquid’ on girl at Miami store

homesafetytechpros — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:55:34 +0000

Inset: Sean Uribe (Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Ross Dress For Less store where Uribe allegedly poured an “unknown liquid” on a girl. (Google Maps)

A 25-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he allegedly poured an “unknown liquid” on an underage girl’s buttocks at a Miami-area Ross Dress For Less.

Sean Edward Uribe is facing a felony charge of battery on a child involving bodily fluids and a misdemeanor battery charge. He also is charged with tampering with evidence, per records.

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Miami ABC affiliate WPLG obtained an arrest report that says the incident occurred June 21 at the Ross at 14840 N. Kendall Dr. The girl told Miami-Dade police that she was shopping at the store when patrons came up to her and told her that a man wearing a Miami Dolphins hat and holding a syringe squirted an unknown liquid on the back of her jean shorts and then started filming her. Witnesses reportedly told store employees of the incident who called cops. The suspect fled before deputies arrived.

Cops were also investigating a similar incident in June with a suspect wearing a Dolphins hat. Detectives reportedly identified Uribe as a suspect and obtained a search warrant at his west Miami-Dade home. Officers allegedly recovered three syringes with a “viscus white liquid, consistent with semen” inside his bedroom. They also found the same clothes surveillance video showed the suspect was wearing, the affidavit reportedly said.

Uribe was taken to Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation on Thursday. He remains there on an $8,500 bond, records show.

According to court records, Uribe was arrested June 19 — two days before the alleged incident at Ross — for a misdemeanor battery charge. He was released on his own recognizance. That case has a trial hearing scheduled for Oct. 28.

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