Orlando Sentinel

A homicide victim

- By David Harris

in Kissimmee was beaten so badly with a wooden board and vacuum cleaner this month that he was left “unrecogniz­able,” an arrest affidavit says.

A homicide victim in Kissimmee was beaten so badly with a wooden board and vacuum cleaner this month that he was left “unrecogniz­able,” an arrest affidavit said.

The victim’s bludgeoned body was found next to a dumpster with pieces of a Dirt Devil vacuum and wooden boards nearby, police said in a report released Wednesday detailing the gruesome beating.

Investigat­ors say the suspect, Angel Luis Olmeda-Rivera, stopped beating the victim and walked away only to return and attack again. Police have not released the victim’s name because they have not yet made contact with his next-of-kin, an agency spokeswoma­n said.

Olmeda-Rivera “beat [the victim] so badly and viciously, the victim was unrecogniz­able and had to be identified through fingerprin­ts,” Detective Gary Johndro wrote in the report. “… Even after the victim would have obviously been deceased, Angel continued beating him until the remains of his head could not be identified as once being a head.”

Police were called around 8:40 a.m. March 14 to the parking lot of an auto repair shop in the 400 block of Donegan Avenue after someone found the body.

Detectives obtained surveillan­ce video of Olmeda-Rivera in the area. The video showed Olmeda-Rivera breaking into cars across the street, walking to the dumpster and throwing something in it, the affidavit said. He then started attacking the victim, the affidavit said. He stopped and started again at least three times, according to the affidavit.

Olmeda-Rivera, 44, was arrested on burglary charges on March 15 and charged with second-degree murder on Monday.

Detectives interviewe­d Olmeda-Rivera and he said he did not remember what happened. He had cuts and scratches on his hands, detectives noted.

“Angel did not seem to care he had hurt someone so I explained to him he committed a murder,” Johndro wrote. “Angel looked at me, smiled and laughed at this. He did not appear shocked, remorseful or concerned by any of this informatio­n; instead he seemed amused by it.”

Olmeda-Rivera is in the Osceola County Jail without bail.

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