Reported by Jacqueline Fell and Janelle Jordan
LONGWOOD -- Investigators spent Thursday night searching the home of a man they said kidnapped and killed a young woman from her job at a local auto dealership.
Police said William Roger Davis, 33, showed up at the Super Sport Auto dealership on U.S. Highway 17-92 to get a title for a vehicle he had already purchased.
Investigators said Davis then kidnapped Fabiana Malave, 19, at knifepoint, took her in her vehicle and drove less than a half-mile to the parking lot of the Post Time Lounge, where he changed vehicles.
“[He] takes her to another location in Orange County, we believe, and unfortunately, he kills her there,” said Lt. James Clark, with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. “He then comes back here, to this location at the Post Time, where her vehicle was. We don’t know why that was the case, but he actually drove by the very dealership that he kidnapped her from.”
That was when authorities said the family and owner of the dealership noticed Davis driving by, followed him back to the bar and blocked him in the parking lot, where a fight started.
Police were called to the scene and discovered Malave’s body in the back of Davis’ vehicle.
Malave was the only person working at the auto dealership when she was kidnapped, officials told News 13.
An autopsy is scheduled Friday to determine her exact cause of death.
Investigators said they do not believe the kidnapping and killing were random acts, and are trying to determine if there is enough evidence to charge Davis with premeditated murder.
Officials told News 13 Davis was recently released from jail after serving a five-year sentence in Polk County on assault and burglary charges.
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