Overview
- Authorities say the victim was attacked from behind at Tiger Shores Beach around 11 p.m., pushed into the ocean, and held underwater in an apparent random assault.
- The woman lost consciousness during the struggle, then regained it and walked more than a mile to Stuart Beach, where she found a deputy.
- Deputies canvassed the area and reviewed footage for two days before the Port St. Lucie contact led them to Hernandez-Gonzalez, 26.
- Investigators report the suspect said the woman made him angry, believed she was dead, then smoked marijuana, drank vodka, left the scene, and later said he felt nothing.
- Hernandez-Gonzalez, a Venezuelan national whose work visa had expired, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, held at the Martin County Jail without bond, and subject to an ICE detainer.