18 Oct 2012
A
crazed gunman just hours before he was expected appear before a judge
to defend himself to an injunction order, walked into a salon, fired
couple of rounds, wounding his estranged girl friend and killing three
other women. And later turned the gun on himself, just five miles away
from the crime scene in Florida on Thursday.
The gunman identified as Bradford Baumet went on the shooting spree around 11.00am at the Dominicans hair salon located at the Casselton Corners Plaza in Seminole county, in Central Florida.
Marcia Santiago, 44, the estranged girlfriend who suffered a single gunshot wound was rushed to the nearby hospital and her condition was unknown. Santiago and her business partner, Eugenia Marte, only few weeks ago had filed the injunction order against Baumet for domestic violence.
Two women who were inside the salon escaped unharmed through the backdoor.
According Orlando Sentinel Juan Diaz, who works at the nearby Metro PCS store, recounted to the Orlando Sentinel how he and his customers heard gunshots at around 11am and saw the gunman as he left the salon.
‘We saw the guy with the gun in his hand…..coming this way…on foot with the gun in his hand.
‘When we realized the guy was gone … we went in the hair salon.
And once we were in the hair salon we just saw a bunch of dead bodies,’
Diaz said.
According to police, Baumet was found with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound at a friends’ house in a residential area of Winter Park about five miles from the shopping center.
The shooter appeared anxious and agitated when arrived at the home in the 1300 block of Paradise Lane, telling the couple who lived there that he had some problems he could not remedy, police said.
Shortly after, Baumet committed suicide without revealing to his friends what he had done. Three people were at the house at the time of the shooting.
Baumet had had many run-ins with the law in the past, with dozens of
arrests in Florida and Rhode Island, for charges that ran the gamut from
making obscene phone calls to stalking and burglary.
As recently as last Sunday, the 36-year-old was in police custody for allegedly operating a vehicle with a suspended license. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to time-served and a fine.
In 2004, Baumet was arrested on charges of stalking and burglary. He pleaded no contest, spent a short time behind bars and got two years of probation.
That same year, a woman filed a domestic violence injunction against Baumet in Broward County. Earlier this year in Seminole County, Baumet was sentenced to nearly a year in jail after pleading no contest to selling pirated music CDs, according to court documents cited by the Sentinel.
Orange County court records show that on October 5, Baumet drove to the Casselberry salon, banged on the locked door and threatened to kill the women inside.
Just days later, both Marte and Santiago filed and obtained temporary injunctions against Baumet.
‘I am scared and feel my life is in danger,’ Santiago wrote in her injunction application.
Santiago also told the court about previous incidents, where Baumet manhandled her, forced her to have sex and made threats on her life.
‘I did not file right away because Brafort [sic] threatened me that if I file an injunction that he will kill me,’ Santiago stated. ‘I got scared.’
The Orlando Sentinel said that the slayings are the latest in an onslaught of recent domestic-violence related murders and suicides in Central Florida. Thursday’s mass shooting was the second time in three weeks that men hunted down their former girlfriends at work and shot multiple people then killed themselves.
Since late September, domestic violence has claimed the lives of at least 11 Central Floridians.
Source: Orlando Sentinel & Daily Mail
The gunman
Marcia Santiago, 44, the estranged girlfriend who suffered a single gunshot wound was rushed to the nearby hospital and her condition was unknown. Santiago and her business partner, Eugenia Marte, only few weeks ago had filed the injunction order against Baumet for domestic violence.
Two women who were inside the salon escaped unharmed through the backdoor.
According Orlando Sentinel Juan Diaz, who works at the nearby Metro PCS store, recounted to the Orlando Sentinel how he and his customers heard gunshots at around 11am and saw the gunman as he left the salon.
‘We saw the guy with the gun in his hand…..coming this way…on foot with the gun in his hand.
Estranged girl friend(injured) on right and business partner Egenia Marte (killed)
According to police, Baumet was found with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound at a friends’ house in a residential area of Winter Park about five miles from the shopping center.
The shooter appeared anxious and agitated when arrived at the home in the 1300 block of Paradise Lane, telling the couple who lived there that he had some problems he could not remedy, police said.
Shortly after, Baumet committed suicide without revealing to his friends what he had done. Three people were at the house at the time of the shooting.
As recently as last Sunday, the 36-year-old was in police custody for allegedly operating a vehicle with a suspended license. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to time-served and a fine.
In 2004, Baumet was arrested on charges of stalking and burglary. He pleaded no contest, spent a short time behind bars and got two years of probation.
That same year, a woman filed a domestic violence injunction against Baumet in Broward County. Earlier this year in Seminole County, Baumet was sentenced to nearly a year in jail after pleading no contest to selling pirated music CDs, according to court documents cited by the Sentinel.
Orange County court records show that on October 5, Baumet drove to the Casselberry salon, banged on the locked door and threatened to kill the women inside.
Just days later, both Marte and Santiago filed and obtained temporary injunctions against Baumet.
‘I am scared and feel my life is in danger,’ Santiago wrote in her injunction application.
Santiago also told the court about previous incidents, where Baumet manhandled her, forced her to have sex and made threats on her life.
‘I did not file right away because Brafort [sic] threatened me that if I file an injunction that he will kill me,’ Santiago stated. ‘I got scared.’
The Orlando Sentinel said that the slayings are the latest in an onslaught of recent domestic-violence related murders and suicides in Central Florida. Thursday’s mass shooting was the second time in three weeks that men hunted down their former girlfriends at work and shot multiple people then killed themselves.
Since late September, domestic violence has claimed the lives of at least 11 Central Floridians.
Source: Orlando Sentinel & Daily Mail
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