Found Deceased FL - Juan Santiago Missing from Deltona

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This is a strange one that doesn't sound like will have a good ending MOO. I hope the son has a change of heart and tells exactly what happened to Dad, and where he is.

"An 18-year-old involved in a multicounty chase is believed to have killed his father before opening fire on deputies and crashing into a Mount Dora synagogue.

On Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff said the teenage son and his dad were heard arguing on the phone before a shot went off and the line went dead.

The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Jonny Santiago. Deputies said he was spotted in three different counties before running from law enforcement before he ended up in a shootout with officers in Lake County.

The investigation began in Deltona Sunday night at a home at East Lehigh Drive and Normandy Boulevard.

Deputies said around 5 p.m. Monday, the suspect was spotted in Mount Dora and chased before he drove a Ford F-150 truck into a synagogue while firing at law enforcement.

Santiago was shot seven times in that shootout. Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Santiago is not saying anything to them about what happened or where his father might be.

Deputies said the teen’s father, Juan Santiago, flew down from New York to the family’s Deltona home Sunday night because the family was concerned about the son acting strange, running from police and crashing a car."


"The Volusia County Sheriff's Office has released more information about the circumstances that led to a pursuit and an 18-year-old suspect being shot by deputies on Monday.

The investigation began Sunday night after the suspect got into a fight with his dad at their Deltona home.

A woman reportedly called Central Florida authorities to say she was on the phone with her husband and their 18-year-old son, Johnny Santiago, when she heard arguing and a loud noise.

The call disconnected, and she never heard from her husband again.

Deputies responded to the home where Johnny Santiago and his father 52-year-old Juan Santiago lived, and they found no one home and no vehicles in the driveway.

Sheriff Mike Chitwood said deputies found evidence at the Deltona home, including shell casings and blood. Investigators said they found a bloody shirt at the Deltona home and weapons in the F150 after it crashed in Mt. Dora. Chitwood believes the suspect dumped the body nearby.

Chitwood said the family is from New York but has a second home on East Lehigh Drive in Deltona where the son had been staying. Officials said he had been acting out recently, allegedly crashing one of the family cars last week on I-4."


 
This is kind of odd, but I guess she is maybe being advised by lawyers not to talk? Seems bizarre the mom wouldn’t be helping find her husband:

“Investigators are using different pieces of technology to try to track him, but the sheriff said neither the teen or his mom are working with them to help find the dad.”
WFTV News
 
This is kind of odd, but I guess she is maybe being advised by lawyers not to talk? Seems bizarre the mom wouldn’t be helping find her husband:

“Investigators are using different pieces of technology to try to track him, but the sheriff said neither the teen or his mom are working with them to help find the dad.”
WFTV News

Either lawyer advice, or she has now decided to protect the son at all costs? Hope that LE can get a lead of some kind to be able to find Juan. I wonder if Juan's side of the family is also in NY? If so it looks like they might have to come down to FL to advocate for him, since Mom and Son are not, at least at this time.
 
Darn it. Sadly Juan's body has been found as expected. His sister found him:

"Sheriff Mike Chitwood said the sister of suspect Jonny Santiago found 52-year-old Juan Santiago’s body while searching Lake Avalon. Deputies had been searching for Juan Santiago’s body for days".

RIP Juan. I'm so sorry this happened as it sounds like family was everything to you.

 

NAME: JONNY ZE GUISEPPE SANTIAGO​

INMATE NUMBER: 148779​


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A teen who led deputies on a chase before crashing his car and getting shot is now accused of killing his father, apparently “over car keys,” a sheriff in Florida said.

Johnny Santiago, 18, is accused of killing his father and hiding his body in some bushes near Lake Avalon, about 20 miles west of Orlando, Volusia County.......

On July 14, Johnny Santiago’s sister discovered her father’s body while searching around Lake Avalon, Chitwood said during the news conference. The Santiago family used an app that was tracking the location of Johnny Santiago’s vehicle to see that he had parked it near the lake around 1 a.m. on July 11.
 

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Chitwood said it was the family who found Juan Santiago using an app that could track the Ford F150 that deputies believe Jonny Santiago used Monday night to transport his father's body to a remote section of Orange County near Lake Avalon.

The family very recently discovered they had access to the app that could track the truck which the sheriff's office had previously tried to gain access to, according to the sheriff. So they went out to look for Juan Santiago themselves.

Jonny Santiago is expected to appear in front of a judge Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. for three charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.
 

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