By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A female pizza delivery driver has been accused of stabbing a customer multiple times over having been tipped $2 on an order at a Florida motel.
According to court records, 22-year-old Brianna Alvelo was charged with attempted murder, home invasion with a firearm, kidnapping and aggravated assault.
As contained in an affidavit filed in Alvelo’s case, a woman, her 5-year-old daughter and boyfriend were staying at a motel in Kissimmee to celebrate a birthday and ordered a Marco’s pizza last Sunday.
Alvelo delivered the pizza, which cost about $33 and was asked to give change for a $50 bill, but Alvelo did not have change, and the woman searched for smaller bills, giving Alvelo only a $2 tip in the end.
The woman said that sometime later, she heard a loud knocking on the door, the affidavit said.
A man and a woman clad in all black wearing masks forced themselves into the room when she opened the door, the affidavit said.
The man brandished a silver revolver and demanded that the woman’s boyfriend go into the bathroom. And the other person, believed to be Alvelo, according to the affidavit, pulled out a pocketknife.
Alvelo rummaged through the woman’s purse and broke her daughter’s Nintendo Switch. The woman said she turned to shield her child and felt a strike to her lower back, it said.
She then threw her daughter onto the bed and attempted to pick up her phone.
Alvelo grabbed the phone, smashed it, and “began striking her multiple times with the knife,” according to the affidavit.
The man who had the gun then yelled it was time to go, stopping the assault, it said.
The woman was stabbed 14 times, with wounds to her chest, arms, legs and abdomen.
She discovered she was pregnant while she was being treated at a local hospital, the affidavit said.
Brianna Alvelo
Alvelo was being held at the Osceola County Jail on a $55,000 bail, and no attorney was listed for her.
Prosecutors requested that she be held without bond during her appearance in court, saying it was a “punishable by life offense.”
Investigators reviewed motel security camera video that showed a woman parking a red Toyota at around 10 p.m. and approaching the couple’s motel room.
The interaction appeared consistent with the woman’s account, the affidavit said.
Security video then shows a red Toyota back in the parking lot and two people with masks returning to the couple’s room roughly an hour and a half later, the affidavit said.
A manager at the Marco’s Pizza location confirmed to investigators that Alvelo was working the night of the incident, as well as that she drives a red Toyota Camry.
He also gave investigators a copy of her time card, verifying that she finished her shift at 10:20 p.m. that night.
Source / NBC News
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