 Wildwood Turnpike Extension area - An illegal immigrant from Guatemala has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of another illegal immigrant, also from Guatemala, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
According to a press release from the sheriff’s office, it was just before 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, when sheriff’s deputies responded to the Day’s Inn Hotel on S.R. 44 in Wildwood in reference to a stabbing. They discovered that a Hispanic male had been stabbed in the chest and was in need of life-saving measures. The victim, later identified as Bilder Eulaio Pablo, 24, was airlifted to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, where he eventually he died.Â
According to the sheriff’s office, a short time after the report, deputies located the suspect, Ricardo Agustin Lorenzo, 48, traveling southbound on foot along Interstate 75. He attempted to evade deputies by hiding in the wood line along Interstate 75 but was apprehended a short time later. The suspect was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder and is being held without bond.
The Sumter County Detention Center has contacted (ICE) the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and a detainer is in the process of being placed on the suspect.
The Investigation is ongoing at this time with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office at 352-793-2621. To remain anonymous, please contact Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8
