A man accused of repeatedly stabbing a restaurant employee to death inside a Miami trolley is now claiming he acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n
Lamont Collins is facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of 49-year-old Adolf Bruce.<\/p>\n
Video captured the chaos inside the trolley as Collins allegedly stabbed Bruce multiple times. Riders can be heard screaming and trying to escape.<\/p>\n
After about 30 seconds of stabbing, the video shows Collins leaving the trolley.<\/p>\n
Collins, who has chosen to represent himself, sat alongside prosecutors on Tuesday in court as they reviewed graphic video evidence in the case.<\/p>\n
He watched the stabbing closely and took notes. Collins also reviewed video showing the aftermath, including blood throughout the trolley.<\/p>\n
Collins is using the evidence to prepare for his defense. In a handwritten motion, he claims Bruce physically attacked him and says he pulled out a fishing knife “in defense.”<\/p>\n
Collins also claims he feared he was in danger of suffering great bodily harm from Bruce.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors, however, contend Collins was the attacker and that Bruce was the victim.<\/p>\n
Bruce was remembered by his co-workers as a beloved restaurant employee at Amara at Paraiso\u00a0who had a profound impact on those around him.<\/p>\n
One co-worker described Bruce last year as being “loved to an extreme amount” and said his death affected the entire community.<\/p>\n
Because Collins is representing himself, the judge is allowing him to review evidence in the case as he prepares for a Stand Your Ground hearing scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n
At that hearing, Collins will argue that his case should be dismissed under Florida’s self-defense law.<\/p>\n
The judge will ultimately decide whether the case should be dismissed or move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of repeatedly stabbing a restaurant employee to death inside a Miami trolley is now claiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1219,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-400805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}