A woman and her 15-year-old daughter were found shot to death inside a Sunrise home where a man had been barricaded for nearly five hours Monday, police said.
The two bodies were discovered shortly after Kevin Nelson surrendered peacefully to officers on Monday afternoon — almost four months after police were called to the same address during a domestic dispute.
The standoff Monday began around 11 a.m., when police received a 911 call from someone saying they had heard shots fired inside Del Rio Village, a townhouse complex just east of University Drive.
When officers arrived at the home, they made contact with Nelson, 32, by phone.
“He said, ‘I’m in here,’ and hung up the phone,” said Sunrise Police Officer Michelle Eddy. “We were negotiating with him for several hours.”
The police SWAT team and crisis negotiation team were called to the scene.
Nelson walked out of the home with his arms raised and turned himself in to authorities about 3:45 p.m., Eddy said.
Once Nelson was out of the home, investigators made their way inside and found two bodies. Eddy confirmed that a 40-year-old woman and her teenage daughter had been shot.
Eddy said the woman lived in the home with Nelson but could not confirm whether the woman’s daughter lived there as well. The daughter was not directly related to Nelson, Eddy said. Police did not release the names of the victims.
No official charges have been filed against Nelson. Investigators were interviewing him Monday afternoon.
Court records show Nelson was arrested during a domestic disturbance in October 2016 at the same residence, in the 7700 block of Balboa Street.
According to the arrest report, Nelson repeatedly hit a woman who lived in the home with him after she tried to stop him from throwing bleach on the bedroom furniture.
The woman’s daughter told police at the time that she heard her mother screaming, telling her to call 911. She could also hear the couple struggling in the upstairs bedroom and when she went up to check on her mom, she saw Nelson on top of her, the report said.
When police arrived, they could smell the bleach inside the home and saw blood on the walls and the couch, the report said.
Nelson was ordered to stay away from the victim as a condition of his pre-trial release in that case. The order was revoked about a month later, after the Broward State Attorney’s Office decided not to move forward with the case and the charges were dropped, court records show.
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