

In an interview with Indiana TV station WSBT, a woman who said she is Xaver's ex-girlfriend described him as "fascinated with death and guns." Xaver and his mother moved from Indiana to Florida last fall, according to news reports.

Zephen Allen Xaver, 21, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder after allegedly killing five women in a Sebring, Fla., SunTrust bank.Ĭourtesy of Highlands County Sheriff's Office "Her life was truly a light in this world," Williams said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. Officials said a 65-year-old customer named Cynthia Lee Watson was killed in the attack, along with SunTrust bank employees Marisol Lopez, 55, and Jessica Montague, 31.Īna Piñon-Williams, a 38-year-old mother of seven who worked at the bank, also died, according to her brother-in-law, Tim Williams. The victims were found lying facedown in the lobby with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs, according to a police report. "Perhaps most unfortunate is that now we refer to them as victims of a senseless crime," Hoglund said. Fighting back tears, he said the town was mourning the loss of "our sisters, our mothers, our daughters and our coworkers." "Zephen Allen Xaver knowingly and intentionally took the lives of five of our fellow community members," Sebring police Chief Karl Hoglund said at a Thursday news conference. Five women were found lying facedown in the lobby of a SunTrust bank in Sebring, Fla., with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs, according to a police report.Ī 21-year-old man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after police say he opened fire inside a Sebring, Fla., bank on Wednesday afternoon and killed five women.
