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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WFLA) — The apprehension of an 18-year-old Florida antheral has led constabulary to judge they whitethorn person stopped a imaginable serial slayer successful his tracks.
On Wednesday, Omarion Ivory, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested successful the sidesplitting of 67-year-old Francis Gennacem, the Port St. Lucie Police Department said. The apprehension warrant was served astatine the St. Lucie County Jail, wherever Ivory was already held aft a Sept. 20 arrest.
Gennacem was recovered dormant conscionable wrong the beforehand doorway of his location connected the greeting of Sept. 12. His coworkers had called for a payment cheque erstwhile Gennace did not amusement up for enactment for respective days.
Gennace had astir 45 stab wounds to his caput and neck, an apprehension study said. Next to him was a weapon with a 4-inch blade. Another weapon was recovered successful a bedroom, but it is unclear wherever that weapon came from, constabulary said.
According to officers, Gennace was location alone, arsenic his woman was retired of municipality for respective days. He appeared to person been cooking a repast erstwhile helium answered the doorway and was violently attacked, arsenic determination were nary signs of forced entry.
St. Lucie County Sheriff's OfficeAfter officials surveyed much than 600 hours of vicinity footage, Ivory was spotted canvassing the country connected the greeting of Sept. 8, walking toward Gennace's home, and past leaving the country astir 30 minutes aboriginal connected a bike.
On Sept. 20, Ivory was arrested aft helium was banging connected the doorway and looking done the windows of a location wherever a pistillate lived unsocial portion equipped with a hammer. He fled connected a bicycle earlier helium was taken into custody.
Detectives linked the crimes, which occurred astir 5 miles apart. They compared the suspect's covering and shoes, bicycle -- which was discovered to beryllium stolen -- and vicinity surveillance footage.
"All accounts pb america to judge that Mr. Ivory was astir apt preparing to perpetrate a 2nd homicide that day," Assistant Police Chief Leo Niemczyk said successful a quality conference. "A 2nd random enactment and a 2nd idiosyncratic not known to him."
"We whitethorn person had an undetected serial slayer successful the works," the main added.
Officials said Ivory did not cognize either of his targets personally, and determination is nary known motive.
When detectives seized the weapons, humor recovered connected the hammer was confirmed to beryllium Gennace's. The weapon recovered adjacent to Gennace's assemblage had Ivory's fingerprints, and his footwear size and footwear patterns matched those astatine the transgression scenes, according to police.
Police judge helium acted alone.
The main said helium has a juvenile apprehension history, and his household claimed helium has a past of paranoid schizophrenia, but that is not officially confirmed.
Ivory is facing charges of first-degree premeditated murder, equipped burglary, loitering and prowling, possession of burglary tools, burglary and expansive theft.
He was being jailed without bond.
