In September 2019, Otto broke up with a boyfriend. A month beforehand, he had been arrested for attacking her at their residence in Riverview, Florida.
Otto was prepared to maneuver on along with her life, and had met somebody new.
“I had simply began speaking to Ricky,” she instructed the BBC World Service’s Sportshour programme. “We met on 26 September 2019, and we went on a few dates.
“I had damaged up with my ex, kicked him out, instructed him to go away, he gathered all of his issues, he was gone and I had modified the entire locks on my home. All the pieces was accomplished.
“That evening it was 24 October 2019, we had one other little date, and we go off to mattress. I bear in mind rolling over and getting comfy in mattress and drifting off to sleep.
“After which abruptly, I hear this loud noise and I see a flashlight in my face and I used to be so confused.
“After which I heard his voice, and I realised it was my ex.
“He had parked his automotive on the entrance of my home, went across the again of the home and seemed by way of my bed room window. We had been sleeping, and he had determined to go to buy a high-powered pellet gun.
“He did the perfect that he might to get as near an actual gun as attainable. And a knife and a set of handcuffs.
“And he comes again to my home, breaks in and wakes us up, screaming at us to get off the bed.
“He tells us that he’s going to kill us and that if he didn’t kill himself, he was going to name the police.
“So, he outright instructed us what he was going to do. That is the place the whole lot will get type of blurry as a result of it occurred so rapidly. I can inform you what I do know occurred, I simply don’t have it first hand as a result of my mind simply type of blocked the whole lot out.”
The attacker punched Otto a number of instances earlier than capturing Riessle twice within the face and stabbing him within the again, inflicting his lung to break down.
He then shot Otto by way of the left eye, earlier than stabbing her at the back of the neck, leaving her paralysed. He then sexually assaulted her.
“And he finally ends up calling the police on himself and tells them that ‘that is my title, ‘that is the place I’m at’. He calls me his girlfriend, however then later admits to the police that we had damaged up,” Otto says.
“And he was like, ‘I simply killed my girlfriend and her new boyfriend’. They present up, he’s sitting within the driveway, and he will get taken away.”
In January 2023, the ex-boyfriend pleaded responsible to 2 counts of housebreaking with assault, two counts of tried homicide within the first diploma, one depend of sexual battery and two counts of aggravated bodily hurt.
He was sentenced to 40 years in jail.
