ORLANDO, Fla. _ The Sanford man accused of killing his girlfriend, her 8-year-old son and wounding four other people kicked down her front door then fired at least 14 rounds from an assault rifle, according to a police report released Tuesday morning.
Allen Dion Cashe, 31, made his first court appearance Tuesday in a courtroom at the Seminole County Jail.
He had little to say.
"Nothing to talk about," he said to Senior Judge Nancy Alley.
She ordered him held without bond, saying that would be a matter better taken up later. She also ruled that there was probable cause to hold him on the charges recommended by the Sanford Police Department.
Cashe is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and violation of probation, jail records show.
Killed Monday was Latina Herring, 35, the live-in girlfriend who ordered him to hand over a set of house keys.
Her 8-year-old son, Branden Christian, died Tuesday morning at a hospital, police reported.
Still in critical condition are her other son, 7-year-old Brendon Christian, and their grandfather, Bertis Gerard Herring.
Sanford police Tuesday morning released Cashe's arrest report. According to the report, he confessed to the crime, saying he kicked his way into Herring's home at about 6:20 a.m. Monday, angry about a confrontation three hours earlier at a gas station when she stole the keys from his vehicle _ effectively stranding him _ and called police.
He retaliated three hours later by forcing his way into the family's home _ where he had lived until about 3 a.m. that morning _ with an AK-47 and walked toward Herring's bedroom, firing, according to the report.
"Allen Dion Cashe stated he never wanted it to go this far and never wanted anyone to get hurt," according to the report.
Herring was hit seven times either while still in bed or while trying to get out of it, according to the report.
The boys were shot while they slept on a couch, according to the report. Cashe told police the shooting of the boys was an accident, that it happened after he fell down, but Officer Jason Bowen wrote that because of the bullets' trajectories, Cashe had to be standing directly over them.
They were hit by three bullets, according to the report.
Their grandfather was shot about five times in his bedroom, according to the report.
Cashe then drove away in a white car that had a flat tire, according to the report. A police officer followed it and saw Cashe get out with an AK-47.
Cashe then fled on foot.
Two more people were shot, including an 18-year-old Winter Springs High School student, waiting for a school bus. Rakeya Jackson was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police reported Tuesday morning.
Cashe told police he was not sure how she was shot.
The sixth victim was Lazaro Paredesquelite, 43, who was in stable condition Tuesday morning. He was shot three times across the street from where Jackson was wounded.
Cashe told police he shot Paredesquelite because the man was "looking at him."
The violence happened about three hours after Herring called police from a Wawa gas station, saying Cashe had the keys to her house and wouldn't return them.
Cashe complained to police that Herring had taken the keys to his vehicle, leaving it stranded there at the Wawa.
Herring returned the keys, and they went their separate ways but a few minutes later two callers phoned 911, saying there was a domestic dispute and one of the people involved had a gun.
Officers went to Herring's home. They found Cashe and Herring arguing in the front yard, according to a separate incident report. They handcuffed and patted down Cashe, determined he was unarmed then allowed him to retrieve some belongings from the house and leave.
Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith said his officers could not have known that Cashe would return three hours later with an assault rifle and open fire.
Officers did nothing improper, he said.
Cashe is being held at the Seminole County Jail in Sanford without bail.
Seminole County Public Schools Superintendent Walt Griffin said grief counselors would be available at Hamilton Elementary School, where Brandon attended, for students, staff and faculty to deal with the loss.
