A Florida girl accused of suffocating her boyfriend inside a suitcase was discovered responsible of homicide on Friday following a 10-day trial.
Sarah Boone, 46, was arrested and charged within the loss of life of her boyfriend, 42-year-old Jorge Torres, in February 2020 of their Winter Park, Florida, house.Â
After 90 minutes of deliberation, jurors agreed on the decision towards her on Friday night. She had beforehand pleaded not responsible to the costs of second-degree homicide.
Prosecutors say that Boone zipped Torres inside a suitcase throughout a drunken sport of hide-and-seek, hitting him with a baseball bat, after which leaving him in a single day till he died of asphyxiation.Â
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Sarah Boone was discovered responsible of murdering Jorge Torres Jr. (Orange County Florida Prosecutor)
Graphic cellphone video of Torres struggling within the inexperienced suitcase was proven and remained central through the trial, together with the couple’s dysfunctional relationship.
Within the video of Torres contained in the suitcase, he could be heard saying, “Sarah, I am unable to breathe, babe.”
“That is on you,” she responds.
“Sarah, I am unable to breathe,” he mentioned once more.
“That is on you,” Boone responded.
Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. exhibits pictures in proof throughout closing arguments in defendant Sarah Boone’s trial, Friday, on the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel through AP, Pool)
The 911 name
On Feb. 24, 2020, at 1:01 p.m., Boone referred to as 911 to report that her boyfriend, Torres Jr., was lifeless inside their house.
Within the audio, obtained by WOFL, she is heard saying, “My boyfriend is lifeless.”
She advised 911 dispatchers that she and her boyfriend have been “taking part in final evening and I put him in a suitcase, and we have been taking part in.”
“A hide-and-seek kinda factor,” she mentioned.
Prosecutor Dave Cacciatore Jr. takes out the suitcase in proof as he begins the closing arguments in Defendant Sarah Boone’s trial, Friday, in Orlando, Fla. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel through AP, Pool)
She mentioned she “handed out” and woke as much as discover Torres unresponsive and never respiration within the suitcase.
“I do not know what occurred,” she mentioned. “He had blood coming from his mouth. He is purple.”
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Boone mentioned that she tried to present him CPR.Â
“Nothing occurred. He is purple,” she mentioned.Â
Defendant Sarah Boone, charged with leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped right into a suitcase of their house, talks with protection lawyer James Owens earlier than closing arguments in her trial Friday. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel through AP, Pool)
She is anticipated to be sentenced on Dec. 2, and faces as much as life in jail, the Orange County State Legal professional’s workplace mentioned in a launch.
In her protection, Boone took the stand through the trial in her personal protection, claiming she had no intention of killing Torres.Â
She additionally claimed her actions have been in self-defense and alleged Torres beforehand abused her, and she or he didn’t intend to harm him.Â
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Prosecutors in Orange County disagreed, writing in a launch that her testimony was “contradicted by statements she made and video proof exhibiting her mocking the sufferer as he begged to be launched from the suitcase.”
Fox Information Digital’s Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.
