SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – FOX 35 has obtained new federal documents that detail what happened to Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas on the day of her death.
The 31-year-old was carjacked at gunpoint in broad daylight in Seminole County on April 11. The incident, which was captured on video by a witness, has made national headlines as local authorities tried to piece together what happened to the woman from Homestead on her way to Central Florida.
Now, the U.S. has filed a motion for detention in the U.S. District Court of the Middle District Court of Florida, which reveals that four people were behind the carjacking resulting in death – and they’ve all been charged accordingly.
Initially, Jordanish Torres-Garcia was named as the alleged carjacker and the person visible in the now-viral video of the incident, according to officials. He appeared in court last week.
Now, three other people – one of whom is a new man not previously mentioned in the investigation until this point – have been indicted by a grand jury, documents show.
Here’s who they are:
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Jordanish Torres-Garcia, 28
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Kevin Ocasio Justiniano, 27
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Giovany Crespo Hernandez, 27
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Dereck Alexis Rodriguez Bonilla, 21
All four suspects are from Orlando.
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(From left to right) Jordanish Torres-Garcia, Giovany Crespo Hernandez, Kevin Ocasio Justiniano, Dereck Rodriguez Bonilla (Photo: Seminole County Sheriff’s Office)
Here’s what they’re being charged with:
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Carjacking resulting in death
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Kidnapping
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Use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, causing death
It should be noted that early on in the investigation, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said Crespo Hernandez would not be charged with the actual carjacking. Only Torres-Garcia and Ocasio Justiniano, at the time, were expected to be charged for that.
According to these documents, Torres-Garcia and Ocasio Justiniano “perpetrated” the carjacking and kidnapping. Crespo Hernandez was charged federally this week on unrelated drug charges after a search warrant was executed on his home amid the investigation into Katherine’s death.
Now that the case has been handed off to the feds, they have brought forth these new carjacking charges. As a result of the federal indictment, the state filed a motion to keep the four suspects in custody before trial.
“The government submits that each defendant poses a significant risk of flight and a grave danger to this community if released,” the motion said.
Here are four things we learned from these new federal documents:
Why was Katherine in Central Florida?
Early in the investigation, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said Katherine was on her way from Homestead to Crespo Hernandez’s Casselberry home to “deliver money and other items.” The federal documents made it clear that Katherine was going to Crespo Hernandez’s home to retrieve $170,000 of apparent illegal drug trafficking proceeds.
“Crespo Hernandez was engaged in the drug distribution business,” the documents said.
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