MIAMI – A Northeast Miami-Dade man is accused of a choking a teen to death and dumping her body in the backyard of his home on Monday night.
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to 10742 NE 2 Avenue just after 9 p.m. Monday to check out a report of an unresponsive female in the backyard.
When they arrived, the woman who lives in the home took them to Dominique Domond, 20, who showed them where the unresponsive teen was in the yard by the back door.
The 17-year-old was pronounced dead by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
The woman told the deputies that Domond told her that he was attacked by an unknown male and teen while he was in the house. He reportedly said that he was able to fight them off and at one point push the teen out of the back door in the yard.
Domond was then taken in for questioning.
According to the sheriff’s office, he initially made conflicting and inconsistent statements to detectives about what had happened. They said he eventually admitted that he attacked the teen and that no one else was involved.
“The defendant then confessed to investigators that he and the victim were involved in a physical altercation where he choked the victim with his bare hands,” according to the arrest report. “The defendant then picked up the victims’ lifeless body and disposed of it by throwing it in the rear yard of the residence.”
Domond was then taken into custody and has been charged with second degree murder.
