A man adopted from a prison-like Ukrainian orphanage maniacally slaughtered the American parents who had saved him on Friday, according to police.
Dima Tower, 21, now faces murder charges for the gruesome murders of North Port, Florida, real estate agents Robbie and Jennifer Tower, who rescued him seven years ago.
Stunned police arrived at the home after receiving calls about a domestic dispute to find the deeply religious couple lying head-to-head on their blood-spattered living room floor.
“They were two really good, caring people,” Robbie Tower’s uncle, Warren Rines, told The Post.
“It just doesn’t make sense, none of us understand hate. They were the only two people in his life who ever tried to help him. They treated him like his own son”.
The suspect, who lost his mother as a child and was abandoned by his alcoholic father, sped away from the scene in the car his parents had bought him before running on foot into the dense woods.
He managed to evade capture for almost eight hours until he was finally detained on Saturday morning.
Rines told The Post that his nephew and his wife went on several Christian missions to Ukraine.
Dima Tower, 21, allegedly stabbed his adoptive parents to death. North Port Police Department
Unable to have children alone, they decided to adopt the tiny boy when he was 14 years old despite his heartbreaking past.
“At the orphanage I would have bruises,” Rines said. “When they went out to eat, he ate like six hot dogs. He wasn’t eating much. “These orphanages are like prisons for children.”
Robbie and Jennifer Tower were repeatedly stabbed inside their North Port home on Friday.GoFundMe
But the Towers, Rines said, were convinced that their son could overcome the afflictions of his past if they wrapped him in their unconditional love and generosity.
The couple struggled to acclimate the boy to his new surroundings, and the unusually small student often got into fights at school.
“When I met him, he was interested in boxing,” said Rines, a martial arts enthusiast. “But he didn’t want to box. He wanted to hit. He wanted to do damage ”.
Police assembled at the scene of the murders on Saturday morning.
Still, there were periods of quiet in the Tower house as Robbie and Jennifer tried to reassure Dima of his devotion.
“It wasn’t all bad,” Rines said. “But I think the boy already felt a lot of hate before he came here. And I suppose you take it out on those closest to you.”
Three years ago, Rines said his nephew was forced to call the police after Dima assaulted him and left him with a black eye.
He was sent to live with relatives on Jennifer’s side of the family for a period, but Robbie insisted that he return home.
The door of the house where the Powers were killed.WINK
“That was how much I loved him,” Rines said. “They forgave him for everything. They bought him a car, whatever he wanted or needed.
Police did not reveal a specific motive for Friday’s killings. They noticed that there were large pools of blood throughout the house, indicating a prolonged and frantic attack.
Police responded to the scene around midnight when a neighbor reported someone banging on his door and yelling for help. When he opened it, the woman was gone, but she had left blood splatters on the floor.
Arriving officers saw the suspect closing the trunk of his vehicle and ordered him not to move. But Tower ignored the commands and hit the gas, leading police on a highway chase.
Finally he abandoned the car and ran into the nearby woods. After nearly eight hours, Tower was arrested at 8 a.m. the next day.
“Robbie was a good man,” said Rines, who created a GoFundMe for the family. “He didn’t deserve this.”
Neighbors told local outlet WINK that the Powers were decent, kind neighbors who were part of their local church.
“Rob and Jennifer were really kind, sweet, good people, the kind of people you don’t see anymore,” he said. “In this day and age.”
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Source: vtt.edu.vn