Luis Damas, 64, is now coping with one value of tried murder, two counts each of burglary with assault or battery, false imprisonment with a deadly weapon, and aggravated assault with a firearm. Extra counts of tried proof tampering and felony battery have moreover been launched.

In conserving with Eixchel Berroteran, who goes by Eixchelb on-line for her 4.3 million TikTok followers, Damas and her mother separated seven months previously, sooner than Damas broke into their residence “saying he was going to kill me” as a results of “I did not need him and my mother to be collectively.”

In a extended caption posted in Spanish for her 717,000 Instagram followers, Berroteran detailed her alleged experience on the night of August 21, claiming Damas waited on the condominium door for her mother and pushed his strategy in.

Accompanying her message was a slideshow of images from the alleged altercation, along with bloody photos and video of Berroteran’s hand, the place she was allegedly shot; her mother’s torso, with what appears to be chew marks and bruising; and damage within the residence.

She credit score her mother 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 cowl beneath the mattress sooner than crawling in direction of 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 evening… the worst of my whole life. God gave me one other probability. 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 conserving with Berroteran’s account, she and her mother had been collectively able to push Damas into the kitchen and onto the underside. There, she claims that as he tried to fight them off, “he bit my mom and pulled my head very laborious.”

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

The attainable set off arrest affidavit for this case appears to corroborate a lot of Berroteran’s story, though it doesn’t establish her, in step with Legislation & Crime.

In that account, Damas’ partner knowledgeable police she was with a pal when she heard a knock on the door. She talked about that she knowledgeable Damas she’d title him later, per the doc, nonetheless when she walked her pal out of the condominium, he was nonetheless there.

In conserving with the papers, Damas requested her the place their daughter was, saying that she was the rationale they might not be collectively. He then allegedly pushed his strategy into the condominium and pulled out a gun, per the affidavit, and made his technique to his daughter’s room.

The report states that she tried to cowl beneath her mattress as “the defendant acknowledged, ‘I will kill you’ and fired one shot.” The affidavit states the partner then jumped on Damas to attempt to take the gun away.

The police report corroborates allegations that Damas bit his partner “throughout her physique,” together with that she “grabbed a wine bottle from the kitchen and started to strike” per WPLG, sooner than she and her daughter had been lastly able to get him to position the gun away.

Whereas they’d been able to get him calm ample to talk, per police, Damas “stored a maintain of (his stepdaughter) by the hair whereas sitting on the sofa, not permitting her to exit” the condominium.

He then allegedly pressured his partner to “clear up the scene,” per affidavit, sooner than they assured him they’d not title the police and escorting him out the door.

The woman says she didn’t title police immediately, per the report, as a results of her husband threatened that if she did, he would “have them killed by hitmen that he knew.” After going to the hospital to take care of their accidents, the women did lastly title police the following day. On Friday, Damas was arrested in his residence.

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

The interpretation continues, “Nobody deserves to dwell via what my mom and I lived via.” She known as for prayers and that “justice be carried out,” whereas moreover promising to “turn into the voice of all of the individuals who have been victims of mistreatment, abuse and on this case … virtually homicide.”

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

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