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An arrest warrant gives new insight into why a man allegedly murdered his romantic partner and her 4-year-old daughter Wednesday afternoon in Dover.
Deputies were called just before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to a mobile home on Sumner Road near Berry Pride Lane. They reportedly arrived to find 36-year-old Amalia Choc de Pec dead in the backyard and her daughter, 4-year-old Estrella Pec Coc, dead in the bathtub.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister described it as an "extremely gruesome scene" with bloody clothes and handprints throughout.
“I am taken back by the level of pure evil that has transpired when our suspect brutally murdered an innocent woman and a young child," he said in an earlier news conference.
After searching throughout the night, deputies arrested 31-year-old Angel Cuz-Choc on Thursday morning after K-9s found him hiding in a heavily wooded area near Interstate 4.
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