Suspects in two local cases were captured this week elsewhere and will be brought back to Osceola County to face charges for their crimes.
On Tuesday evening, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office captured a man who fled Kissimmee after the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said he fired shots into the home where the mother of his unborn child lives. This occurred Tuesday around 1:30 p.m. at a home on Orchid Lane which is off Woodcrest Boulevard just east of Michigan Avenue on Kissimmee’s north side.
David Gomez-Posso, 25, will be charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant person, Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez said.
According to the investigation, which is still ongoing, Gomez-Posso originally entered the home on Monday, and threatened the woman with a gun. While it’s unclear what else he did on Monday, he reportedly returned to the neighborhood and the home on Tuesday around 1:30 p.m. and fired several rounds outside the home. The home’s owner, reported bullet holes in a fence and a shattered back window of a car parked in the home’s driveway.
Gomez-Posso then fled the area, and was captured by Charlotte County deputies in the evening when his green 2016 Toyota Camry entered its jurisdiction. According to CCSO officials, they had received intelligence that he had made statements about getting into a shootout with law enforcement if they attempted to arrest him.
According to CCSO, after the suspect exited Interstate 75 and pulled into a gas station, law enforcement attempted to detain him but he fled and re-entered the highway. After a short chase, he was captured after crashing when he failed to negotiate the curve of an I-75 south offramp.
“This guy is a menace. He could have shot anybody in this neighborhood,” Lopez said Tuesday night.
Gomez-Posso, who was arrested in Charlotte County in 2020 for battery and again in 2021 for drug and firearm-related charges according to Sheriff Bill Prummell, is currently held at the Charlotte County Jail without bond on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement with wanton disregard. He will eventually face the original charges out of Osceola County.
Then on Wednesday, the Kissimmee Police Department reported an arrest has been made in connection with a homicide reported on Thanksgiving morning (Nov. 28) along the canal on Emory Street about a block west of John Young Parkway. The investigation into that morning’s 9-1-1 call report of a deceased male turned into a homicide case in the days that followed
The investigation led to the warrant for the arrest of Romeo Florez-Perez, 24, on charges of first-degree murder. Florez-Perez was located in San Antonio, Texas this week while attempting to flee the country. The FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and The San Antonio Police Department assisted in his discovery and capture.
KPD reports the suspect will be retuned to Kissimmee and sent to the Osceola County Jail.
Neither man in these cases has a prior arrest record in Osceola County, although Lopez did say there were cases of domestic violence between Gomez and the victim that were unreported. He encourages victims of domestic violence to report incidents to police or to Help Now of Osceola, the county’s victim advocacy group for domestic violence victims and survivors.
