A man who illegally entered the United States from Haiti and murdered a Fort Myers store clerk faces the death penalty, prosecutors say.
State Attorney Amira Fox announced Thursday that a Lee County grand jury has indicted Rolbert Joachin, 40, in connection with the April 2 killing of Nilufa Easmın, a 51-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant, at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida.
Chochin is accused of attacking the victim outside a gas station, killing her by repeatedly hitting her in the head with a hammer, according to prosecutors.
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Surveillance video recorded the entire attack. The video showed that after the victim and the suspect broke the car window, he was hit in the head multiple times with a hammer. Authorities called the video “extremely brutal and violent.”
Investigators said Chochin fled the scene after the attack, sparking a citywide search before Fort Myers police found and arrested him.
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“This crime was so violent, so extreme, so unfounded. It is something that, once seen, will never be forgotten. I want to thank the Lee County Grand Jury who watched and reviewed the horrific evidence in this case and paid it their full attention. I know it was not easy. This defendant entered the United States illegally and brutally ended the life of a mother just to provide for his family,” said State Attorney Foxx.
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“He will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. We will seek the death penalty in this case,” Fox said.
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President Donald Trump condemned the violent video and blamed the Biden administration for releasing the suspect in 2022.
“An illegal alien criminal from Haiti, unleashed into our country by the worst president in history, crooked Joe Biden and radical Democrats in Congress, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida,” Trump wrote in the Truth Society post. “The video of her brutal murder is one of the most vicious things you have ever seen.
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He added: “This one killing should be enough for these activist judges to stop blocking my administration’s immigration policies and allow us to end this scam once and for all.”
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, Joachim first entered the United States in August 2022 and was released back to the United States under former President Joe Biden.Dis).
A federal judge later issued a final deportation order against Joachim, but he was granted temporary protected status in what Trump called “a scheme of massive abuse and fraud.” He also blamed what he called “radical liberal district court judges” for blocking his administration’s efforts to end the incident.
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Joachim was reportedly granted temporary protected status even as a federal judge issued a final deportation order against him, a program Trump called “massive abuse and fraud” and difficult to eliminate because of Democratic support.
The suspect remains in the country after his status expires in 2024.
Fox News’ Alexandra Koch and Bill Melukin contributed to this report.
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