Florida man kills 2 men, seriously injures woman with baseball bat while boy, 10, hides in bathroom-Boy called 911 from a bathroom where his grandmoth

TheComputerGroup · Aug 1, 2020

A Florida man is accused of fatally bludgeoning two men and hurting a woman with a baseball bat while a 10-year-old phoned police from a room nearby, according to multiple reports.

Ezekiel Emanuel Hopkins, 34, allegedly broke onto the property of John and Lisa Savey’s Windermere home late Thursday by driving his vehicle into a gate at the entrance. He then attempted to steal a car before the pair stopped him, according to Windermere Police Chief David Ogden and local affiliate Fox 35 Orlando.

"He attacked John Savey, leaving him dead outside the residence. The defendant then went inside the residence and attacked Lisa Savey who had retreated into her home,” Ogden said during a related press conference. “The defendant also attacked John and Lisa Savey’s son, James Savey, leaving him dead inside the house."

All the while, John and Lisa’s grandson, James’ nephew, called 911 from a bathroom where his grandmother had ordered him to hide, the outlet reported.

“I don’t believe the family was targeted,” Ogden said. “I believe that he was just trying to look for another vehicle to steal because he had seen some police officers some time before looking at him.”

Hopkins was discovered inside another bathroom, unresponsive after police suspect he drank bleach, according to the report.

He was taken to a nearby hospital and charged with murder and aggravated battery.

The woman was seriously injured and was rushed to an area hospital, the outlet reported.

“Words really can’t describe what we want to say to the family,” Ogden said. “It’s a horrific situation.”

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TheComputerGroup · Aug 1, 2020

Isn't it interesting how they never mention the suspect is black......if it were reversed, they would be shouting from the roof top.

Looks like a rich neighborhood area.......

TheComputerGroup · Aug 1, 2020

Ezekiel Hopkins: What we know about the man accused of beating 2 to death with baseball bat in Windermere

Here’s what we know about Hopkins so far:

Hopkins is charged with two counts of murder and aggravated battery related to the deaths of John Savey and his son James Savey, 30, and the injuries to John’s wife, Lisa Savey.

Officials said prior to responding to the Saveys’ home, members of the Ocoee Police Department observed a suspicious vehicle on Ocoee Apopka Rd behind a construction area. The vehicle fled, which investigators believe may have been at a high rate of speed down McGuire Road and was not pursued pursuant to policy, according to police. The vehicle then drove over a berm off Park Avenue before crashing into a tree next to the home where the double homicide occurred, according to police.

Police said Hopkins was located unconscious inside the Saveys’ home and was transported to Health Central as he appeared to have drunk bleach while at the scene.

Records show Hopkins has a criminal history involving domestic violence. He pleaded no contest to violating a domestic violence injunction in a 2009 case and entered an abuse intervention program.

In 2008, a woman Hopkins has children with claimed he threatened her life and her daughter heard him say he was planned to “shot that (expletive) in the head.”

In a 2009 petition she said that he punched her in the head three times and she said that Hopkins said “he was going to run the car into a house killing us.”

Three years later she claimed he said: “He will kill me because I refuse to talk to him.”

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