ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was arrested months after a shooting in Hunters Creek that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old, Orange County deputies said in an update on Wednesday.
Luis Angel Rivera Soto, 24, was arrested in connection to the Dec. 4, 2022, shooting that killed a man, later identified as 20-year-old Bryan Soria Figueredo, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Deputies initially responded to Osprey Links at Hunters Creek Apartments shortly before 11 a.m. that day when they found Figueredo, who had been shot in the head, near the golf course located at the back of the complex, an arrest affidavit shows. He was then transported to the hospital where he later died, deputies said.
According to the affidavit, a witness said she was inside her apartment with her three children and boyfriend, Figueredo, when her friend, identified as the suspect, called her to pick up his house keys.
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Rivera and the witness had known each other for about a year because they worked at a hotel together, the affidavit reads. The two had a romantic past and Rivera gave the witness his house keys to check up on him from time to time because he had been diagnosed with heart problems, according to sheriff’s officials.
Rivera met with the witness in the parking lot when Figueredo walked out to check on her and introduce himself to the suspect as her current boyfriend, the affidavit shows.
An argument ensued between Figueredo and Rivera, who had been upset with the woman since the previous night, and the witness ran off to carry one of her children away from the fight before returning to find her boyfriend overpowering the suspect, according to deputies.
Figueredo was able to remove a man purse wrapped across Rivera’s chest because Figueredo and the witness knew it contained a firearm, the affidavit shows. Figueredo threw the item toward the witness, who picked it up and attempted to run from the scene to remove the firearm from the fight, according to deputies.
As she was running away, Rivera chased her and Figueredo chased him. The witness then tried and failed to ditch the weapon in a pond in the golf course at the complex and the suspect was able to obtain his purse with the firearm and pointed the weapon at the victim’s head, deputies said.
The witness told him in Spanish, “Please don’t do it,” before turning around to call 911 and hearing a gunshot, according to the affidavit. Figueredo was on the ground and Rivera fled the scene, deputies said.
After the shooting, the affidavit shows Rivera sent the woman the following voice message in Spanish:
“Since you came to my life you have ruined it, I don’t even know why the (expletive) I got with you, look what I just did because of you, you don’t know what you got myself into, because of you I have ruined my life... I told you not to play with me girl, you should’ve been clear with me,” Rivera said in the message.
Rivera was arrested in Puerto Rico and faces a first-degree murder charge.
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