In what Sheriff Marcos Lopez called a “tragic murder, a case of domestic violence where a daughter killed her mother,” he revealed the details of a homicide in Buenaventura Lakes Saturday.
Natalie Marie Gonzalez, 32, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the incident on Windy Dune Court in the Coralwood neighborhood, just east of Florida's Turnpike.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the home after receiving a 911 call, presumably from Gonzalez, and found Jacqueline Negron, who lived in the home with her, dead in the shower in a pool of blood with blunt trauma and puncture wounds. The Orange County Medical Examiner revealed Negron suffered a large skull fracture to the back of her head, consistent to what could be caused with a hammer.
“She won’t die, and someone is going to die,” Lopez said the caller said.
When deputies arrived, Gonzalez was on scene, wet and only wearing socks and holding a hammer and a pair of scissors, according to the arrest affidavit. While she refused to relinquish them, she was taken into custody without incident or causing her injury. During this she repeated, “I’m sorry,” and admitted to hitting Negron with a hammer because she was someone else — “Beca”, who Gonzalez said was trying to kidnap and hurt her. She added several times that she didn’t know it was her mother, and that Negron “was her best friend.”
Lopez said his deputies do not know who “Beca” is, but the arrest report stated Beca is the mother of Gonzalez’s niece, and Gonzalez stated, “Sometimes she thinks Jacqueline is really Beca and trying to hurt her.”
During the investigation Saturday, the Sheriff's Forensic Unit spent considerable time investigating inside the house. A pair of evidence markers were in the yard, and a black curtain was up to try to block the view from nearby neighbors and onlookers, who seemed puzzled about what was going on, or about the family’s relationship within the home.
Lopez said Gonzalez has no criminal history; she has no cases, not even a traffic ticket, in Osceola County’s court records database prior to this case.
This is the second homicide that the Sheriff’s Office has investigated within the last month. On Nov. 16, Kevin Torres was charged with three counts of murder, along with a host of other charges after being chased and caught in Orange County, in the shooting deaths of three people at the Flower Place Apartments.
