An Orlando teenager was arrested Friday on expenses of second-degree homicide within the stabbing of a boyfriend whom she stabbed and threatened to kill on earlier events, in accordance with the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The arrest affidavit mentioned Zoe Nicole Cooper, 18, acquired right into a bodily altercation in August with 19-year-old Tadarius Massey, at her Orlando residence following an argument. Massey was stabbed a number of instances, had a reduce on his brow and marks on his neck in keeping with handbook strangulation.
Cooper drove Massey and his associates who have been on the residence to a hospital in Ocoee, permitting them to hold him into the hospital the place he died, the affidavit mentioned. She didn’t enter the hospital however went again to her residence. Sheriff’s deputies have been known as to the hospital.
On the time of the incident it was unclear if Massey’s loss of life was the results of a murder or self-defense. However over the course of the investigation Sheriff’s Workplace detectives decided the loss of life was a murder.
Cooper was arrested within the Houston, Texas space, in accordance with the information launch. She might be returned to Orange County at a future date.
On the time of the incident that led to his loss of life, Massey’s associates mentioned he’d already been stabbed once they noticed the couple exit the residence and Cooper was frantic and mentioned “I didn’t imply to,” the affidavit mentioned.
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The affidavit mentioned Cooper instructed deputies the argument began as a result of Massey wouldn’t give her entry to his telephone. She mentioned that they had a chronic battle the place she armed herself with a knife, Massey at one level took the knife and stabbed stuffed animals after which she acquired the knife again and stabbed him.
Deputies have been unable to seek out any stabbed stuffed animals and Cooper’s solely harm was a bruised eye — inconsistent with a chronic battle, in accordance with the affidavit. She additionally mentioned Massey poured liquor on her in the course of the battle, however deputies have been unable to seek out something on the scene to substantiate it. Her members of the family on the residence instructed deputies they hadn’t witnessed something.
The following investigation by the Sheriff’s Workplace discovered that Massey instructed others he’d been attacked and stabbed by Cooper beforehand and she or he’d threatened to kill him.
The affidavit mentioned two outdated stab wounds have been discovered on Massey’s shoulder throughout his post-mortem, a photograph of Massey with a contemporary stab wound on his shoulder from March was discovered on his telephone and a vice principal at Ocoee Excessive College instructed deputies Massey mentioned Cooper stabbed him beforehand.
Messages from each of their cellphones present Cooper threatening Massey simply days after he took the picture of the current stab wound. A number of the messages from Cooper mentioned “I ought to have killed you,” “I want you’d’ve died that day,” “I’m glad I stabbed you” and “Significantly i hope you die a really painful loss of life and I imply ts.”
A number of days after Massey’s loss of life, Cooper despatched him a message on Instagram saying “u wit dat sleepyhalloww” with a number of laughing face emojis, in accordance with the affidavit.
Massey instructed the identical vice principal at Ocoee Excessive that Cooper attacked him a number of instances, together with an incident on the college in December, in accordance with the affidavit. He instructed her Cooper was mad he didn’t give her entry to his telephone — similar to in the course of the deadly altercation — as a result of she thought he was speaking to different ladies.
Massey’s supervisor on the Subway the place he labored mentioned he’d are available wanting “beat up” and inform her he was attacked by Cooper, the affidavit mentioned. The supervisor instructed deputies Cooper would come into Subway and watch Massey work with out talking to him.