McLean had Humphries' car keys, driver's license, bank cards, and black lipstick. And when he was searched, detectives found Humphries' belongings on him. Victim's DNA found on box-cutter bladeĪfter McLean was shot and fell behind a house on Maple Avenue in Sanford, first-aid was administered. They returned fire hitting him in the leg and arm. In court on Tuesday, detectives recounted how McLean ran and kept turning to look back as he fired a gun at them. Seminole County sheriff's detectives surveilled it and after seeing McLean and another man approach the vehicle, they tried to contact them. The day after Humphries' body was found, her car was spotted at a laundromat in Sanford. Suspect gets in shootout with police, injured "The defendant's phone and Amy's phone are traveling together to the scene where the body was found," Trigones said.Īfter the body was dumped, the cell phone tracking system shows the devices leaving the crime scene to an alley in Deltona where Humphries' missing flipflop was found, investigators said. Phone records showed McLean was at the scene where the body was found, Trigones said. Volusia County Sheriff's investigators used technology to show that McLean traveled with Humphries' body to the scene where he left her on the trail partially naked. "During those two hours the defendant murdered Amy inside her new car, she is in the passenger compartment."Īfter brutally killing Humphries and dumping her body, McLean steals her car and cellphone, which was never found, and drives around in the vehicle, Trigones said.
Amy's body is found dumped on a walking trail in Osteen," Trigones said. and shortly after she was dead, Trigones said. Humphries and McLean left the store around 5 p.m. The clerk then tells Humphries she cannot sell her the pistol.
While filling out the document, Humphries starts to cry, and circles "NO" where the document asks if she was purchasing the gun for herself, Trigones said. Humphries was given a firearm, which McLean also handles to get a feel of it. Inside the store, Humphries told the clerk she was buying the firearm for herself, so she was given an application form to fill out. McLean handed Humph ries cash, the prosecutor said. So they visited Steel Fox Firearms in DeLand. On the day of her murder, McLean asked Humphries to buy him a firearm. McLean would leave the center and spend time with Humphries at her Orange City apartment, Trigones said. McLean lived at the homeless center Neighborhood Center of West Volusia on Woodland Boulevard where he shared a room.
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Eugene Mefford said at trial the letters were found at Humphries Orange City apartment after a search warrant was executed at the home.īut a few weeks before her murder, Humphries started spending time with McLean. She knew McLean and communicated through letter correspondence, the prosecutor said. Trigones said Humphries had an apartment and had recently bought the 2021 Volkswagen Jetta. "On April 20, 2021, 28-year-old Amy Humphries was brutally beaten in her head and her face, she was strangled, she was cut 77 times with a utility knife, a box cutter," Trigones said. The incident occurred about two hours after McLean had asked her to buy him a firearm, but she did not, Trigones said. In her opening statement, Assistant State Attorney Heatha Trigones told the jury that McLean killed the victim in the new Volkswagen Jetta that she had just bought. Prosecutor: Victim murdered after not buying gun Brandon McLean, accused of stabbing and cutting his girlfriend 77 times with a boxcutter, is representing himself in his ongoing murder trial.
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