Originally posted: 11:23 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Documents released by prosecutors revealed new details in the Markeith Loyd case, including texts between Loyd and his slain ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon.
- Documents show texted fight between Markeith Loyd, Sade Dixon
- After Dixon was shot, text from Loyd's phone said "hope you don't [make it]"
- WE'VE GOT HIM!: Markeith Loyd taken into custody
- Loyd denies resisting arrest, wants to represent himself
- Judge: Markeith Loyd competent to decide whether to defend self
- Accused killer Markeith Lody faces 3 more charges
Loyd is charged with killing Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton and Dixon, who was pregnant with his child.
Evidence shows the shot that killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton was the one police say Loyd shot while standing over her in a Walmart parking lot. Loyd exchanged fire with Clayton after Clayton tried to apprehend Loyd.
The report says when police asked Loyd why he felt the need to shoot Clayton while she was on her back, he replied, “defending myself.”
Loyd was already wanted, the main suspect in the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Dixon, nearly a month earlier.
In the newly-released documents, Loyd told police he broke up with Dixon because she wouldn’t stop smoking, apparently out of concern because she was pregnant. Describing his actions at Dixon’s home the night she was killed, Loyd told police “she went and got a gun and her brother end up comin’ out and he jumped on me.”
In text messages police recovered from Loyd's and Dixon’s cell phones, both accuse each other of cheating. Three days before she was shot and killed Dixon referenced an earlier incident texting Loyd, “I could’ve been left you for trying to end my life.”
Loyd texted Dixon back, “whatever happens to me I know I’m a honest good man.”
The report shows moments after Dixon was shot and killed on December 13, Loyd texted her, “Don’t know if you [going to] make it, hope you don’t, told you don't play with me and you went and got a gun on me instead of talking to me, so you wanted it when all I ever wanted was to talk now we paying the price.”
Investigators say when they searched the house where Loyd was hiding out before his capture, they found 10 and half pages of notes with a “Markeith Loyd” signature on one of the pages of the notes.
Investigators say the writer gave a detailed account of what had transpired leading up to the killing of Dixon and the shooting of her brother.
They say the writer provided an explanation as to why he did it and the unintended consequence of the killing of his unborn child.