Overview
- Opening statements detailed allegations that Dima Tower fatally stabbed Jennifer and Robbie Tower in their North Port home in August 2023.
- Tower broke down in court during his lawyer Marc Gilman’s remarks, prompting Judge Thomas Krug to briefly excuse the jury.
- Prosecutors referenced affidavit findings of extensive blood throughout the house and the victims found face down, lying head to head.
- Authorities say Tower fled the scene and was arrested after a pursuit in which officers used spike strips to stop his vehicle.
- Records show years of prior police calls involving Tower, including a declined request for an involuntary mental-health hold and a 2020 domestic-violence arrest later dismissed.