Orange County deputies who responded to an alarm call at Jorgete Acarie's home in August found her body riddled with bullet wounds, according to newly released evidence in the case.
Acarie was shot five times — including twice in the head — while her young son was asleep in bed next to her. And the deputy who found her knew Acarie's ex-boyfriend, Kristofer Gould, would be a prime suspect in the case.
Gould, who disappeared for a few days before the Volusia County Beach Patrol found him illegally camping on a beach, was indicted on a first-degree-murder charge.
More than 600 pages of evidence in the case were released this week by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office. The records reveal new details of the crime scene:
The morning of the Aug. 26 slaying, Deputy Sherri Weida-McCullough arrived at Acarie's home on Forest Run Lane in response to a residential alarm.
Weida-McCullough was familiar with the home and Acarie because she had responded to prior reports of violence there, reports show.
When no one answered the front door, Weida-McCullough circled the home and found the sliding-glass door to Acarie's bedroom ajar. The 43-year-old mother was bloody and not responding to the deputy's voice.
Within minutes more deputies descended on the home, forced open the front door and broke down the bedroom door in order to reach Acarie and her 2-year-old son. He was not injured.
About 15minutes after Weida-McCullough discovered the gruesome scene, she told dispatchers Gould was a possible suspect, and deputies began hunting him down.
Records state deputies later found Gould's fingerprints on the sliding-glass door, on a crowbar found nearby and a backpack with Gould's personal items inside near the home's electrical box, which had been tampered with. Investigators found 15 shell casings in the bedroom.
Court filings indicate Gould had a history of threats and harassment targeting Acarie. In April 2011 he threatened to kill Acarie and her family, records show. Days before her death, Acarie had a violent run-in with Gould. On Aug. 20, Acarie called 911 to report Gould was harassing her.
He started banging on her front door at 1:30 a.m., but she wouldn't answer. Then at 3:30 a.m., a brick flew through her bathroom window.
Records show Acarie's teenage son, a runaway at the time, was with Gould at a hotel the day before the homicide and saw him with a .40-caliber Glock.
The boy told investigators he was with Gould while he stalked Acarie days before the homicide and watched Gould use a cellphone application to repeatedly call Acarie using false phone numbers, records show.
Investigators interviewed Gould's parents, who once spent the night at Acarie's home after she called them to ask for help. Gould's father told detectives he wasn't picking sides in the fight but wanted to defuse potential violence.
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