The suspect in the horrifying shooting that shocked both investigators and neighbors was hauled into custody on March 1. He is the biological father of one of the four victims found dead in a Canaveral Groves apartment.
Sheriff Wayne Ivey described the act as “horrific.” Brevard County, Florida sheriff’s deputies were summoned to the single-story residence at around 2 a.m., where they discovered the bodies of two women, a teenager, and a man. All four were dead at the scene and two children, aged 6 and 9, were found uninjured in the house.
Sheriff Ivey said that the bodies were found when a child used FaceTime or a similar app to report that there was an incident. No explanation was provided until the arrest of the suspected murderer 12 hours later.
Domenico Gigante, 36, shot his daughter Kiarra, her mother, her grandmother, and a man who had two younger children with Kiarra’s mother, Constance. Domenico Gigante, who once dated Kiarra Terwilliger’s mother, Constance Terwilliger, was detained in Rockledge and charged with four counts of premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of Glenda Terwilliger, 63, Michael Andrew Watson, 36, Constance Terwilliger, 35, and Kiarra Terwilliger, 15.
It was anticipated that Gigante would be taken into custody at the Brevard County Detention Complex and that he would make his initial court appearance on Thursday morning.
Gigante’s criminal record includes charges of battery and domestic abuse in 2005, numerous charges of animal cruelty in 2008 and aggravated assault and battery with a lethal weapon in 2012. Sheriff Ivey claimed that Gigante had stabbed a dog and killed another one by smashing its head on a table and breaking its neck. He said that he was an extremely violent person and should have been put away much earlier.
A roommate later reported that Gigante had threatened on Tuesday to go over and murder them all because of his tense relationship with his daughter. Court documents corroborated this account. It was unclear right away if the roommate got in touch with anybody about the claim and if the horrific event could have been prevented.
After the May 2012 case when a mother shot and murdered her four kids and then killed herself, the recent four fatalities mark the bloodiest single homicide case in Brevard County, Florida.
