Eight months in the past, Kentrell Freeman was arrested for bringing a baseball bat to his ex-girlfriend’s workplace and threatening to kill her, regardless of a home violence protecting order barring him from the lady’s office. A coworker was in a position to lock the workplace door earlier than Freeman entered with the bat, courtroom paperwork state.
Two days in the past, on Wednesday, Could 28, Freeman returned to the lady’s office, this time with a knife. He stabbed his ex-girlfriend within the stomach, and when the identical coworker — Joe Clements — once more intervened to guard her, Freeman stabbed him twice within the again, in keeping with Key West police stories.
The protecting order conserving Freeman away from the sufferer had expired on March 21, in keeping with courtroom data.
The stabbing occurred on the workplaces of Gary the Carpenter Development, 800 Simonton St., shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Could 28, police stories state. The feminine sufferer, Alexandra Nicole Albury, 36, who shares a son with Freeman, is the corporate’s workplace supervisor, and Clements, 65, handles its pc system.
Witnesses in a neighboring enterprise informed police they noticed Freeman strolling up Petronia Avenue in direction of the development firm’s workplace on the nook of Petronia and Simonton streets.
“In accordance with witnesses … an ex-boyfriend of Sufferer Albury, later recognized as Kentrell Freeman (defendant) got here into the workplace and began a verbal altercation with Sufferer Albury. The argument turned bodily, and the defendant stabbed Albury within the stomach with a knife. Sufferer Clements intervened within the altercation, and he was stabbed twice within the again,” Officer Scott Standerwick wrote in his report.
When Standerwick arrived on the scene, he wrote in a report, witnesses have been making use of strain to Clements’s wounds and Albury was making use of strain to her stomach wound. Albury was flown to a Miami hospital for therapy whereas Clements was handled at Decrease Keys Medical Middle, then launched.
Albury’s sister posted on social media the morning after the stabbing, that Nicole was “secure and doing properly.” She thanked the neighborhood for his or her concern and help. Gary Burchfield, who owns Gary the Carpenter Development, posted a tribute to Clements on social media immediaetly following his launch from the hospital, writing, “Not all heroes put on capes; some put on ugly pants. However this dude Joe Clements is one immediately, and I’m proud to name him brother.”
Freeman, nonetheless, had fled the realm after the stabbing, prompting an in a single day manhunt that ended together with his arrest in a yard at Poinciana Plaza housing advanced off Duck Avenue round 7:30 a.m. the subsequent morning, on Thursday, Could 29.
He faces expenses of tried second-degree homicide and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, police stories state. He’s in jail and being held on a $2.5 millon bond.
Freeman remains to be awaiting trial for his September 2024 arrest involving the baseball bat. He faces expenses of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon and violation of a protecting order in that case, and has a listening to scheduled for June 16 in entrance of Choose Mark Jones, in keeping with courtroom data. Following that arrest, Freeman reportedly informed police that Albury had angered him by deactivating his cellphone service and telling him she was “going to make his life hell,” stories state.
Freeman denied threatening to kill Albury with the bat and informed police he had introduced the bat to Albury’s office to drop it off for his or her son, though he admitted understanding he was prohibited from that property by the protecting order.