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A 24-year-old fugitive was arrested months after he allegedly stabbed a man in the neck in Miami Beach. Surveillance video and community fliers led police to the suspect.
Miami Herald File
A fugitive who stabbed a man in the neck on the sands of Miami Beach late last year was arrested Thursday night after weeks of searching and pleas for the community’s help, authorities say.
Jack Daniel Gutierrez, 24, is facing a charge of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. As of Friday night, he was still behind bars without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, jail records show.
On Oct. 23, an unnamed man took a stroll on the beach and sat near a lifeguard tower near the 1700 block of Miami Beach, according to an arrest report.
According to police:
Gutierrez approached him and asked for a cigarette, the man told him he didn’t smoke.
Undeterred, he asked if he could use the man’s cellphone; the man refused. He thought Gutierrez walked away, but he instead suddenly ambushed him with “a knife or bladed weapon.”
He tried to fight off Gutierrez, but he felt a puncture to his neck before Gutierrez ran off, leaving him profusely bleeding. Miami Beach police were called and officers saw the man had a “large laceration along [his] neck from ear to ear,” the report read.
The man was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
Detectives spent the next weeks combing city cameras, which captured Gutierrez walking behind the man before the attack and running away after, the report said.
A flyer was sent out citywide using the surveillance video. In early December, police found and temporarily held Gutierrez. It’s unclear why he was released or when he was later put in a photo lineup, which was shown to the victim, who identified Gutierrez as his attacker.
He was subsequently arrested on Thursday.
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