A 10-year-old Florida girl began her first day of online school when her mother was shot dead by her ex-boyfriend in her home, investigators said Tuesday.
Donald Williams, 27, shot and killed 32-year-old Maribel Rosado Morales for her four children and her two cousins at her home in Indiantown, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters at a news conference hosted by WPEC-TV.
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The shooting erupted during an argument after Williams entered the house around 8 a.m. and confronted Rosado Morales over an online video, Snyder said. Williams shot her several times and fled the house.
Williams was arrested after he tried to flee aboard a bus, investigators said.
(Martin County Sheriff’s Office)
The 10-year-old girl’s teacher at Warfield Elementary School witnessed the incident while setting up the ZOOM class call, Snyder said.
“The teacher’s online – I’ve never done a Zoom with kids, so I paint that other kids are on – and the teacher can see the kids,” he said, adding that she “heard a riot,” despair heard, it was realized was some kind of domestic confusion. “
“The teacher said she was dimming her button [so] no one needs to hear it, and then she sees the 10-year-old put her hands around her ears, ‘Snyder said.
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He said the end of the Zoom call student was almost gone after the child covered her ears. A bullet had hit the computer.
No children were injured during the shooting.
Williams fled the scene on a bicycle before boarding the bus. The bus driver was suspicious and called 911, WPTV reported. A SWAT team in the area responded and seized Williams.
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Williams gave a full confession and will have a first-degree murder charge, Snyder said.
