A violent attack inside a home in Margate was captured on surveillance cameras and ended with the arrest of a man accused of trying to kill his own sister while she slept next to a 1-year-old baby.
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According to police, 36-year-old Ruben Altidore is the man who attacked his sister with a machete early Monday morning, causing multiple injuries. The footage shows the moment the victim manages to escape the house, badly wounded, and runs to a neighbor’s home to ask for help.
The video captures the woman’s desperate screams, and minutes later, covered in blood, she knocks on the door of the home across from hers. She struggles to breathe and eventually sits on the ground while she waits for help.
“The person who was hurt came and rang the doorbell, but we didn’t hear it. That was around 12:32 a.m. … but at 1:20 a.m. … the police were knocking very hard on the door,” a neighbor who did not want to be identified told our sister station Telemundo 51 in Spanish.
The same resident said they didn’t understand what was happening at first.
“When my husband opened the door a little, that’s when we saw blood. The only thing we thought it was was our cat, they killed our cat and he’s wounded, someone saw and called police,” she said. “But when my husband opened the door a little more, we realized it was a person.”
The victim was taken to a hospital, where the authorities said she was able to tell investigators she was asleep when her brother began repeatedly attacking her with a machete.
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According to the police report, the woman said that after several strikes, the suspect stopped and told her: “Oh my God, why aren’t you dead yet?”
Authorities said the victim’s daughter, a girl about 1 year old, was also in the bed during the attack. Although the child was not injured, investigators said she was exposed to the violent incident.
“In the video you can see… they were carrying the little girl, about a year old,” the neighbor said. “What we’ve heard is that everything happened inside the house. He injured the young woman and, logically, the girl ended up with blood on her.”
Altidore was arrested shortly afterward at the scene and remains held at the Broward County Main Jail.
He faces charges of attempted murder as well as aggravated child abuse.
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.
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