Man Allegedly ‘Missed by Centimeters’ Killing Influencer Stepdaughter He Blames for Marriage Finish

Luis Damas, 64, is now dealing with one cost of tried homicide, two counts every of housebreaking with assault or battery, false imprisonment with a lethal weapon, and aggravated assault with a firearm. Further counts of tried proof tampering and felony battery have additionally been introduced.

In accordance with Eixchel Berroteran, who goes by Eixchelb on-line for her 4.3 million TikTok followers, Damas and her mom separated seven months in the past, earlier than Damas broke into their dwelling “saying he was going to kill me” as a result of “I did not need him and my mother to be collectively.”

In a prolonged caption posted in Spanish for her 717,000 Instagram followers, Berroteran detailed her alleged expertise on the night time of August 21, claiming Damas waited on the residence door for her mom and pushed his means in.

Accompanying her message was a slideshow of photos from the alleged altercation, together with bloody photos and video of Berroteran’s hand, the place she was allegedly shot; her mom’s torso, with what seems to be chunk marks and bruising; and injury in the home.

She credit her mom for saving her life, writing (as translated by Google Translate), “He pulled out a gun pointing at my mother and saying he was going to kill me. He pushed her in the lounge and entered my room. He pointed the gun at me.”

Berroteran writes that she initially thought to cover underneath the mattress earlier than crawling towards him “screaming for him to cease.” She writes that “at that second I heard the shot that left me surprised; however my mother, who was already behind him, wrestled him so the shot did not hit me.”

“That night time… the worst of my complete life. God gave me one other likelihood. When the shot missed by CENTIMETERS… I used to be surprised, in shock and scared to suppose taht these can be my final moments of my life,” she wrote, per translation, “at that second God gave me the power to face up and defend myself with my mom.”

In accordance with Berroteran’s account, she and her mom had been collectively capable of push Damas into the kitchen and onto the bottom. There, she claims that as he tried to combat them off, “he bit my mom and pulled my head very arduous.”

Amid alleged threats from Damas, the ladies instructed one neighbor who knocked on the door to go as Damas allegedly instructed them “he had contacts within the police and that if we reported … he had thug buddies.”

The possible trigger arrest affidavit for this case seems to corroborate a lot of Berroteran’s story, although it doesn’t title her, in accordance with Legislation & Crime.

In that account, Damas’ spouse instructed police she was with a pal when she heard a knock on the door. She stated that she instructed Damas she’d name him later, per the doc, however when she walked her pal out of the residence, he was nonetheless there.

In accordance with the papers, Damas requested her the place their daughter was, saying that she was the explanation they could not be collectively. He then allegedly pushed his means into the residence and pulled out a gun, per the affidavit, and made his approach to his daughter’s room.

The report states that she tried to cover underneath her mattress as “the defendant said, ‘I will kill you’ and fired one shot.” The affidavit states the spouse then jumped on Damas to try to take the gun away.

The police report corroborates allegations that Damas bit his spouse “throughout her physique,” including that she “grabbed a wine bottle from the kitchen and commenced to strike” per WPLG, earlier than she and her daughter had been finally capable of get him to place the gun away.

Whereas they had been capable of get him calm sufficient to speak, per police, Damas “stored a maintain of (his stepdaughter) by the hair whereas sitting on the sofa, not permitting her to exit” the residence.

He then allegedly compelled his spouse to “clear up the scene,” per affidavit, earlier than they assured him they’d not name the police and escorting him out the door.

The girl says she didn’t name police straight away, per the report, as a result of her husband threatened that if she did, he would “have them killed by hitmen that he knew.” After going to the hospital to deal with their accidents, the ladies did lastly name police the next day. On Friday, Damas was arrested in his dwelling.

In her social media account, Berroteran wrote, per the interpretation, “I can inform you that the trauma hurts greater than the bodily wounds, and that I actually do not understand how I’ll ever recover from this nightmare.”

The interpretation continues, “Nobody deserves to stay by way of what my mom and I lived by way of.” She referred to as for prayers and that “justice be achieved,” whereas additionally promising to “turn out to be the voice of all of the individuals who have been victims of mistreatment, abuse and on this case … nearly homicide.”

She concluded her message by writing, per translation, “There aren’t any phrases to explain the phobia, ache, trauma, nervousness and panic assaults that this has brought on us. Solely God is aware of why I’m nonetheless right here and I ask him to offer me the power to maneuver ahead and that in some unspecified time in the future I can heal my coronary heart.”

Damas is at the moment in jail and being held with out bond.