A man stabbed his fiancée to death near their crying infant in a murder-suicide after learning that she had allegedly been unfaithful.
Carlos Diaz, 25, from Florida, USA got
enraged on May 26 when he murdered Amanda Hicks, 26, then turned a gun on
himself in their Port St. Lucie apartment as their 11-month-old daughter Alani
cried in her crib, the teacher's friend told the New York Post.
"She said they were working through
it," Hicks' friend said. "But I think that was an issue, among
others, and he just went into a rage. A blind rage."
The couple had been together for about three
years after meeting at a Port St. Lucie school where they both previously
worked.
But their relationship had deteriorated,
after Hicks had recently had an abortion and Diaz's family became suspicious he
wasn't the father, sources told the publication.
Diaz learned Hicks had cheated on him several
months ago, but the lady dismissed her infidelity as a slight transgression.
As Diaz was angry over her cheating, Hicks
deleted her social media pages. After she became pregnant, she insisted the
child belonged to Diaz. But his family members, with whom they were living with
at the time in Stuart, Florida, had doubts, and she aborted the child.
"We knew he had a history of being
aggressive," a source said. "So, we were worried. But she told us
they were working through it, that they would be OK."
Living with his family in a crowded apartment
had also affected thier relationship, and her excessive drinking had become a
point of contention between the couple, friends told The Post.
Three weeks before the murder-suicide, the
couple moved into the Port St. Lucie apartment with their little girl to try to
repair their bad relationship.
"They were in love," a source said.
"Amanda had been in some bad relationships with really controlling
boyfriends. But she was so happy with Carlos."
But a friend of Diaz said he was no longer
committed to salvaging their relationship.
"He wanted full custody of the baby and
was trying to sort out how to do that," the source said. "She didn’t
know, but he was going to separate from her."
Diaz's plans drastically changed on the
morning of May 26. He repeatedly called a family member, who didn't pick up. A
short time later, a neighbour reported hearing piercing screams.
"We figured it was just a fight. You get
a lot of that around here," the neighbor told the Post.
A Ring camera captured the sound of a single
gunshot at 12:47 a.m., which is when police believe Diaz shot himself. Alani
was in her crib near her parents' lifeless bodies for 11 hours before police
arrived after a relative requested a welfare check.
They heard the child crying and kicked in the
door. Baby Alani has since been placed with Diaz's parents.
Before the couple began dating, they both had
minor flashes with law enforcement. Diaz had a 2020 assault case from an
altercation at a bar, while Hicks was twice charged with driving under the
influence in 2019 and 2021, records show.
Hicks' mother died of cancer several years
ago, and she'd never known her father. In 2019, she began teaching sixth- and
seventh-grade reading at the Dr. David L. Anderson Middle School in Stuart.
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