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    Alexander Acs Charged with First Degree Murder in 2022 FL Slaying of Tyrone Lawson





    Florida man arrested in carjacking case allegedly confesses to killing man, leads cops to body


    A Florida man who was arrested Monday for allegedly slashing and carjacking a victim admitted to killing a man in another case when questioned by investigators, authorities said.

    Alexander Acs, 33, was booked into the Orange County Jail on a 1st-degree murder charge and is expected to have additional attempted murder and robbery/carjacking charges added, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

    Deputies were initially called around 10 a.m. Sunday to an armed carjacking near Orlando, where Acs is accused of slashing the victim with a box cutter and stealing their car. The victim, whose name was not released by authorities, was rushed to a local area hospital and is expected to survive.

    Authorities eventually located and arrested Acs, who was taken to the sheriff's office. Detectives interviewed Acs, and said he confessed to killing a man at an Orlando-area apartment last week with a piece of asphalt, FOX 35 Orlando reported.

    He later rode with detectives to the 4400 block of S. Rio Grande Ave where they found a badly decomposed body, according to the sheriff's office.

    The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Tyrone Lawson.

    Deputies said Acs arrived in central Florida on Jan. 7 and was looking for an ex-girlfriend who had pressed charges against him in the Tampa area. Acs said he wanted to "take everything from her" and leave the country, according to an arrest affidavit.

    While in central Florida, Acs stayed with Lawson in the area, when he apparently became upset with the man.

    According to the affidavit, Acs hit the man over the head with a "large piece of asphalt," on Jan. 11, before tying him up, and then striking him at least 2 more times with the concrete.

    After the alleged killing, Acs told authorities he "wandered Orlando, sleeping in the woods" as he attempted to track down a male friend of his ex-girlfriend.

    Acs attempted to contact the man on Sunday, which led to the carjacking, according to the affidavit.

    Acs told detectives he planned to plead guilty to the killing with the hope of receiving the death penalty, authorities said. He also threatened that if he didn't receive the death penalty he would "kill a corrections officer in hopes that gets him the death penalty," authorities said.

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    Authorities: Man out on bond after Jacksonville arrest admits to brutal Orlando murder

    By Renee Beninate
    News4JAX.com

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called around 10 a.m. on Sunday to an armed carjacking near Orlando. Deputies said the culprit, later identified as Acs, slashed the victim with a box cutter and stole their car. The victim is expected to survive.

    After Acs was arrested, he admitted to the carjacking and also told investigators that he had killed someone he was staying with last week, the Sheriff’s Office said. He then led them to an apartment where a victim’s body was found decomposing inside.

    Acs told investigators he came to Orlando on Jan. 7 to “locate an ex-girlfriend whom pressed charges against him in Hillsborough County, Florida resulting in a warrant for his arrest,” according to his arrest report. He wanted to come to Orlando and “take everything from her,” then flee the country, according to deputies.

    Acs told investigators he eventually met the victim who allowed him to stay at their home when he was in Orlando.

    In order to get back at his ex-girlfriend, Acs told deputies, he believed he needed a gun so he came up with a plan to kill the person he was staying with and take their gun.

    According to the report, Acs said he brought a piece of asphalt into the apartment, waited until the right moment, then smashed the man over the head. Acs said the victim put up a fight but he eventually was able to tie the victim’s hands with a phone charging cable and stuff a sock in their mouth, the report states. Acs then unsuccessfully searched for a gun in the apartment before striking the victim over the head two more times, he told investigators. He then dragged the victim into a bedroom, covered them with clothes and doused the house in lighter fluid in an attempt to mask the smell the body would eventually give off, according to the report.

    Acs, the report states, then destroyed the victim’s phone and took off.

    Over the next couple days, Acs told deputies, he slept in the woods while still trying to track down his ex-girlfriend before he was eventually arrested for carjacking.

    After his arrest, the Sheriff’s Office said, Acs expressed no remorse and indicated that he would plead guilty to the first-degree murder charge in the hopes of getting the death penalty.

    Jacksonville connection

    Acs was released from prison in June 2021 and moved to Jacksonville where he took up residence at Prisoners of Christ, a ministry for ex-offenders that was founded by a convicted bank robber.

    News4JAX on Monday visited the non-profit and attempted to contact the founder, but was unable to speak with him. News4JAX crime and safety expert Ken Jefferson said the organization has been successful in helping men and women transfer back into society after being in prison.

    “They take men just out of prison, they provide shelter for them and provide them with opportunities to work as well as get out on their feet,” Jefferson said.

    Acs was arrested in Jacksonville in October and accused of domestic assault and theft of a firearm. Police were called to a home by a woman who said Acs had assaulted her and stolen her handgun.

    The charge was eventually reduced to simple battery and Acs was out on bond awaiting trial. The State Attorney’s Office filed a motion to revoke his bond when it learned he violated a no-contact order and was allegedly sending texts to the woman.

    https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/...rlando-murder/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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