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A father who was cycling with his two young sons was killed and the boys injured when a driver would have intentionally plowed the family on a bike path in Tampa, Florida.
The father, Pedro Aguerreberry, 42, was taken to a local hospital after the collision and died as a result of his injuries, the authorities said. His 3-year-old son, Bennett, who was tied to his father's bike, had a broken leg and was flown to a local hospital. The other boy, Lucas, 8, was treated for scratches and scrapes.
"You have an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old boy who basically saw their father die," Tampa police chief Brian Dugan said at a press conference on Monday. Affiliate of ABC WFTS in Tampa. "It was really random and it was deliberately done, we do not know why."
Police arrested Mikese Morse, 30, on charges of first degree murder, attempted murder and hit and run. He is held without bail in a prison in Hillsborough County. The prison records do not mention a defense attorney for him, says the AP.
Mr. Morse reportedly spotted the family, then turned around and left the road, crossed a lawn and taken the bike path where he hit the bikers and walked away from the scene, the police said. Tampa police in an online statement.
Morse was an outstanding athlete in athletics who specialized in the long jump and tried several times for the US Olympic team, according to the Associated Press. He has qualified for the US Olympic Trials three times and was a finalist in 2008 and 2016, but he has never been part of the team.
His parents, Michael and Khadeeja Morse, told AP that their son was suffering from a profound mental illness and that, rather than acting deliberately in the accident, he was preyed to a psychotic break.
The parents said that they were devastated and offered their condolences to the victim's family.
"The system failed us, they failed our child, they failed this family, we tried everything, it should never have happened, and now our child is also affected and it hurts the family. from someone else, "said Khadeeja Morse, a crying woman. "He was a good kid with a mental health problem that we tried to get."
Two weeks ago, parents said, Mikese Morse entered a police station and told them that he was not doing well and asked to be involuntarily committed. An officer took him to a mental health center, where he had already been seen.
His parents said that he had been released on June 19 and that he had refused to take his medication and that there was little that his parents could do, they said, because He did not live with them.
A witness who called 911 to report the incident gave a description of the fugitive car to the officers, police said.
Members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office found the car "two blocks from Morse's parents' home," police said. The police claim that Morse tried to "hide the damage" to his car by applying a strip of tape on his windshield.
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