Haitian illegal immigrant who fatally beat Florida store clerk with hammer will face the death penalty

A antheral who entered the U.S. illegally from Haiti and murdered a Fort Myers store clerk volition look the decease penalty, prosecutors said.

State Attorney Amira Fox announced Thursday that a Lee County expansive assemblage returned an indictment against Rolbert Joachin, 40, successful transportation with the April 2 sidesplitting of Nilufa Easmın, a 51-year-old migrant from Bangladesh, astatine a state presumption successful Fort Myers, Florida.

According to prosecutors, Joachin is accused of attacking the unfortunate extracurricular a state station, striking her repeatedly successful the caput with a hammer and sidesplitting her.

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Surveillance video captured the assault, which showed the unfortunate being repeatedly struck successful the caput with a hammer aft confronting the fishy for smashing her car window. Authorities described the video arsenic "extremely brutal and incredibly violent."

A antheral accused of fatally bludgeoning a Fort Myers store clerk with a hammer has been indicted connected a first-degree execution charge, with prosecutors seeking the decease penalty. (TruthSocial/@realDonaldTrump)

Investigators accidental Joachin fled the country pursuing the attack, prompting a citywide hunt earlier Fort Myers constabulary located and arrested him.

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"This transgression was truthful violent, truthful extreme, truthful unwarranted. It is thing that erstwhile seen, is ne'er to beryllium forgotten. I privation to convey the Lee County Grand Jury who watched and reviewed the gruesome grounds successful this lawsuit and gave their afloat attention. I cognize it was not easy. This suspect entered the United States illegally and brutally ended the beingness of a parent simply astatine her job, moving to supply for her family," State Attorney Fox said.

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"He will be punished to the fullest grade of the law. We will seek the death penalty in this case," Fox said.

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Split of Rolbert Joachim surveillance photograph and mugshot. (Fort Myers Police Department)

President Donald Trump condemned the convulsive video, and blasted the Biden medication for releasing the fishy successful 2022.

"An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released into our Country by the WORST President successful History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats successful Congress, conscionable bushed an guiltless pistillate to decease with a hammer astatine a state presumption successful Florida," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post. "The video of her brutal slaying is 1 of the astir vicious things you volition ever see.

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"This 1 sidesplitting should beryllium capable for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and let america to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL," helium added. 

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Joachim archetypal entered the U.S. successful August 2022, and was released into the state nether erstwhile President Joe Biden, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A national justice aboriginal issued a last bid of removal against Joachim, but helium was granted Temporary Protected Status, which Trump has described arsenic "a massively abused and fraudulent program." He has besides blamed what helium called "radical wide territory tribunal judges" for blocking efforts by his medication to extremity it.

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While a national justice issued a last bid of removal against him, Joachim was reportedly granted Temporary Protected Status, a programme Trump called "massively abused and fraudulent" and hard to destruct owed to Democratic support.

The fishy past remained successful the state aft his presumption expired successful 2024.

Fox News' Alexandra Koch and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.