Based on authorities, when Julie Sulpizio, 48, the one surviving member of her speedy family, discovered that her husband and two daughters had died, “she was joyful” and acknowledged she was performing “within the identify of God.”

This in line with Lake County Detective Josh Mercer at a press conference earlier this week. After he interviewed Julie, who’s for the time being in custody, he instructed reporters, “There was no regret. None in any respect.”

The Sulpizio family was made up of husband Michael, partner Julie and grownup daughters Cheyenne, 23, and Savannah, 22. All 4 had been at their rural home in Eustis, northwest of Orlando, when deputies arrived on the scene.

Deputies had been responding to a reputation that Julie had been making an attempt to lure shut by residents into their home to kill them, in line with The New York Publish.

“The complainant said she was performing non secular, accusing them of being sinners, and he or she is aware of ‘what they did,’” Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell acknowledged in a press conference on Monday, per Fox 35 Orlando. “They recognized Julie Sulpizio as their neighbor, however Julie states that she is ‘Helen, underneath God’s will.’”

Based on native officers, as soon as they talked collectively along with her exterior shut to her home, Julie began accusing the neighbors of being pedophiles, talked about angels and demons and acknowledged, “Julie is in heaven,” as soon as extra referring to herself as “Helen.”

“She then went on to state, ‘You see, the factor is, we wanted to trick Lucy,’ and we later discovered [Lucy] to be a reputation she calls Lucifer.” Grinnell added. She then purportedly pointed on the responding deputy and instructed him, “You might be one in every of them.”

This triggered authorities to take her into custody for a psychological evaluation whereas a welfare confirm was triggered for her home. It was of their attempt to do this that the shootout erupted.

Talking with Information 6 Orlando on Saturday, Lieutenant John Herrell acknowledged that Julie despatched deputies to her home “underneath the guise of conducting a well-being verify.”

“She stated one thing to the impact that it is advisable go all the way down to this home and verify on the individuals there, so the deputies went all the way down to this home, and it appeared that the home had been burglarized,” he instructed the outlet. “In reality, they thought they’d a potential housebreaking in progress.”

“As they had been posting up on the home, they might hear commotion inside,” he continued. “They tried to order the individuals out. Nobody got here out, so at that time, they made entry of the house at which period they had been instantly met with heavy, heavy gunfire.”

Based on Grinnell on the press conference, Lake County deputies seen two ineffective canine throughout the yard as soon as they approached the home. After they tried to enter the property, the remaining relations opened fireplace.

Grasp Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Hyperlink had taken the lead place, acknowledged Grinnell, and was shot numerous events when he tried to enter the home in what authorities described as an “ambush.” The remaining officers retreated, taking cowl and contacting the SWAT group.

At one degree, as captured by bodycam footage recovered from Deputy Hyperlink’s physique, which was lying on the bottom inside the home, certainly one of many Sulpizio daughters is allegedly heard saying, “My King will kill all of you. You might be Lucifer’s kids.” Michael Sulpizio is seen taking purpose with a rifle from the couch.

When this additional backup arrived, they as soon as extra tried to technique the establishing. Deputy 1st Class Stefano Gargano was shot numerous events, as was Grasp Deputy Harold Howell. Each are anticipated to outlive their accidents.

Deputies then heard additional gunshots inside the home. After they made their methodology contained within the residence, they discovered every daughters ineffective on the couch from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the highest, acknowledged Grinnell. Michael was moreover there, severely injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, nonetheless nonetheless alive. He died at a close-by hospital.

Once extra referring to bodycam footage from Deputy Hyperlink, Grinnell acknowledged the daddy and daughters may presumably be heard discussing suicide sooner than they shot and ultimately killed themselves.

When deputies began to dig deeper into the Sulpizio family, they allegedly found proof of most beliefs that may have influenced the family’s response to the deputies’ arrival.

Talking with the press, Grinnell detailed discovering survival offers, a weapons stockpile, “anti-government propaganda and conspiracy theory-related media,” along with “bumper stickers, handouts, and flyers for issues like InfoWars and varied podcasts.”

Based on Grinnell, the investigation uncovered that the Sulpizios had estranged themselves from the rest of their family, as well as to society at large. He acknowledged that the daughters had beforehand been pulled from public schools to be homeschooled the place they may presumably be shielded from exterior influences.

WFTV interviewed Rochelle Eldridge, who was married to the natural father of daughters Cheyenne and Savannah. Calling the tragedy “100% avoidable,” Eldridge says she had contacted the Florida Division of Youngsters and Households years up to now about every ladies.

On the same time, she admitted she’d not seen them in 20 years and was not married to their natural father. Nonetheless, she was on the time Michael Sulpizio was trying to find to undertake them in 2007, when the women had been 5 and 6 years earlier.

She instructed WFTV she begged her then-husband to not allow it, concerned about his ideologies amid a protracted teenager assist battle. She acknowledged she contacted FDC in December 2003 and as soon as extra in Might 2019, saying she instructed them “that he was anti-government. He had a ton of weapons. The tip of the world. He claimed that he had a bunker on that property.”

She moreover expressed points that the women had been pulled from public schools and had restricted and managed entry to the pores and skin world, with nearly zero social life and no cell telephones.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace confirmed numerous Eldridge’s story, along with that the sisters had been pulled from middle school, with Julie telling investigators she did it so they’d not be uncovered to exterior ideologies or beliefs, per WFTV.

In addition they confirmed a bunker inside the home. DCF instructed the outlet they’re wanting into whether or not or not or not Eldridge contacted them.

Grinnell moreover affirmed neighbor’s claims, saying that Julie admitted making an attempt to “lure the neighbors to her residence in order that Michael might kill them.”

Eldridge described Michael as “very conceited, very impolite. Male chauvinist, for lack of a greater time period.” As for Julie, she acknowledged “she was very regular … She was impolite and never nice however she wasn’t nutty.”

Authorities are painting Julie as a result of the “ringleader” of her family’s conspiracy-driven conduct, as well as to the shootout itself, as a result of it was Julie who they allege directed deputies to her home. On the same time, she is being evaluated to see if she is mentally competent to face trial.

On Tuesday, Julie made her first courtroom look, the place she was seen sporting a suicide prevention smock. She was assigned a public defender. She indicated her intention to lease a private authorized skilled. The charges had been study and a pre-trial listening to will happen all through the next 5 days. She is going to keep in custody.

Julie is going by means of 12 complete prices, along with with first-degree premeditated murder of a regulation enforcement officer, seven counts of tried murder, felony battery/strangulation, two counts of battery, and battery on a regulation enforcement officer. She is being held with out bond, with State Lawyer Invoice Gladson telling the press her case is eligible for the lack of life penalty.