Months after a man was attacked and had his neck slashed “ear to ear” on Miami Beach, a suspect believed to be responsible has been arrested, police said.
Jack Daniel Gutierrez, 24, was arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated battery with a weapon causing great bodily harm, Miami-Dade jail records showed.
Miami-Dade Corrections
Miami-Dade Corrections
Jack Daniel Gutierrez
The incident happened shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 23 when the victim said he was walking on the beach near the 1700 block and was sitting near a closed lifeguard tower when he was approached by a man, an arrest report said.
The man asked the victim for a cigarette and the victim replied that he didn’t smoke, so the man asked if he could borrow the victim’s cell phone but the victim replied he doesn’t let people use his phone, the report said.
According to the report, the victim said he thought the man had walked away but the man suddenly attacked him, grabbing him and pushing him to the ground while holding a knife.
The victim said he tried to fight the man off but felt a puncture to his neck before the man jumped off him and ran away.
That’s when the victim said he felt a “heavy volume of blood pouring from his neck” and called 911, the report said.
Miami Beach officers responded and found the victim with a laceration along his neck “from ear to ear,” and he was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, the report said.
Surveillance cameras captured images of the suspect and on Dec. 1, a man matching the description was found by police and gave his name as Jack Gutierrez, the report said.
The victim later picked Gutierrez out of a photo lineup as the man who attacked him, the report said.
Gutierrez, who was on probation for an unrelated weapons charge, was arrested at a probation office and booked into jail, the report said.
He later appeared before a judge who appointed him a public defender and him ordered held without bond.