Sun Sentinel
When Broward Sheriff‘s detectives drove up to the Dania Beach home of Kyle Christopher Hannover on Thursday morning, they found him hosing off his Ford Ranger truck beneath the watchful gaze of two home security cameras, according to court documents.
Hannover, 26, was later arrested, accused of running over and killing Luis Angel Dominguez, 81, of Pembroke Pines Wednesday night after the strangers argued at Everglades Holiday Park, near Weston.
“Oh my God!” one breathless caller said to a 911 dispatcher. “He’s gonna die. You gotta bring somebody to the dock right now.”
The caller, in one of three edited recordings the sheriff’s office released Friday, tells Dominguez, “Señor, espera!” [Mister, wait!]
Before the crash, one boater told investigators a “visibly intoxicated” Hannover told Dominguez to “get out of his country” and “to speak English,” an arrest report states.
Another witness told detectives he saw Hannover yelling and cursing, and watched Dominguez get in the driver’s seat of his Mitsubishi SUV and then get out, after a rock was thrown at the truck.
Dominguez approached Hannover’s pickup on foot, Hannover got inside his truck and intentionally ran over Dominguez, the sheriff’s office said.
Surveillance video from the park shows the Ford “violently bounce up and down as if running over a large object,” according to the report.
Dominguez was a Cuban immigrant, grandfather to four and a retired heavy equipment operator, a relative said.
He was flown to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, where he died, Broward Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gina Carter said.
Hannover’s house and truck were secured until search warrants could be obtained, the arrest report said.
While being questioned by detectives Thursday, Hannover initially said Dominguez was yelling at a friend of Hannover’s and denied involvement with him.
When detectives described eyewitness statements and video images to Hannover, he said he argued with the older man, but that Dominguez had thrown rocks at Hannover’s truck. He also said he feared Dominguez was going to get a gun when he went to his Mitsubishi, police said.
Hannover denied to detectives that he intentionally struck Dominguez with his truck, and told them he did not look back as he left the parking lot, according to the report.
Hannover was arrested on suspicion of committing murder without premeditation. In a Fort Lauderdale courtroom Friday, Broward County Court Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren ordered him held without bond. An attorney and relatives who were present declined to comment.
In the early hours of its hit-and-run investigation, the sheriff’s office released a video of a white Ford F-150 and said it was being sought. That truck was misidentified and belonged to Hannover’s friend, Mark Farrugia, who was at the park with him Wednesday.
When Farrugia saw news reports that showed his truck, he went to Fort Lauderdale police Thursday morning, the sheriff’s office said.
Farrugia told investigators he had met Hannover at the park at lunchtime Wednesday and as he left around 6:15 p.m., he saw his friend arguing with an older man.
That night, authorities say Hannover called Farrugia to admit he struck Dominguez at the boat ramp, the report states.
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