Florida man suspected of killing Trinidad woman set himself on fire

Kiara Alleyne, Trinidad and Tobago national murdered in Florida.
Kiara Alleyne, Trinidad and Tobago national murdered in Florida.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 30-year-old sus­pect want­ed for the mur­der of Trinidad-born Kiara Al­leyne, 20, at her home in Flori­da on Wednes­day has been re­ceiv­ing med­ical care af­ter he was found se­ri­ous­ly in­jured by Mar­i­on Coun­ty homi­cide of­fi­cers and had to be air­lift­ed from the area where he was lo­cat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to Mar­i­on Coun­ty of­fi­cers, the sus­pect was found in the Flori­da Keys on Wednes­day morn­ing and air­lift­ed to Ry­der Trau­ma Cen­ter in Mi­a­mi with burns to the arms in what they de­scribed as a “bizarre se­ries of events that be­gan with a bur­glary call.”

 
Al­leyne was found dead in her Ocala home ear­li­er Wednes­day morn­ing by Mar­i­on Coun­ty Sher­iff’s Of­fice Deputies.

Kiara Alleyne’s home in Ocala, Florida, where the suspect in her killing attempted to set fire to himself and the home.

The sus­pect’s cap­ture in Mon­roe Coun­ty be­gan when the Mon­roe Coun­ty Sher­iff’s Of­fice 911 Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Spe­cial­ists re­ceived a home bur­glary call at 69401 Over­seas High­way on Long Key just north of the town of Lay­ton at about 10 am on Wednes­day.

Re­spond­ing Deputies re­ceived a video of the sus­pect and car.

But deputies did not know they were look­ing for the sus­pect at that time.

 
Short­ly af­ter a be-on-the-look­out was is­sued, an­oth­er 911 call came in, with the re­port­ing per­son stat­ing a man was scream­ing that his car blew up and that he was burnt.

On­ly mo­ments there­after, a third 911 call came in of a fire at an ad­ja­cent prop­er­ty at 57336 Over­seas High­way very near the Edge­wa­ter Road prop­er­ty.

A car was en­gulfed and caught the stilt­ed 57336 home on fire as well. The car was a Maz­da CX7 sport util­i­ty ve­hi­cle, the same car Mar­i­on Coun­ty of­fi­cials re­port­ed was be­ing dri­ven by the sus­pect.

Deputies quick­ly iden­ti­fied the man as both the bur­glary sus­pect and Al­leyne’s mur­der sus­pect, giv­en he was want­ed out of Mar­i­on Coun­ty.

The sus­pect’s burns were deemed se­ri­ous and Marathon Fire Res­cue para­medics took him to the Sher­iff’s Of­fice Avi­a­tion Unit hangar at the Flori­da Keys Marathon In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port where he was air­lift­ed to Mi­a­mi.

The sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to be served with the war­rant out of Mar­i­on Coun­ty and will be charged with the Long Key bur­glary.

He could al­so face more charges.

Al­leyne, 20, was the moth­er of one, a one-year-old girl and was orig­i­nal­ly from Point Fortin.

On Wednes­day the Mar­i­on Coun­ty Sher­iff’s Of­fice (MC­SO) re­ceived a call for ser­vice from a fam­i­ly mem­ber con­cerned for Al­leyne’s well be­ing.

Up­on ar­rival, the MC­SO de­tec­tives found the vic­tim, Alleyene dead in her home.

Be­fore Al­leyne was found dead, the sus­pect post­ed a Face­book mes­sage pro­fess­ing his love for her.

He lat­er post­ed an­oth­er cryp­tic mes­sage sig­nalling the end of her life.