ORLANDO, Fla. – A man suspected of fatally shooting a Florida police officer spoke out of turn Thursday morning and was defiant in an Orlando courtroom, where he made an initial appearance on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Wearing a green padded vest and a bandage covering his left eye, Markeith Loyd appeared before Orange County Judge Jeanette Dejuras Bigney.
Loyd, 41, refused to fill out an application for a public defender, saying he was going to defend himself.
"It don't matter," Loyd said when the judge asked him about his decision.
The judge denied Loyd's bond for his first-degree murder charges and ordered him not to make contact with any witnesses and victims.
The murder suspect accused authorities of "making up" allegations against him.
Loyd also claimed no one helped him while he was at large.
"I didn't receive nothing from nobody," he said. "I was out there by myself. How in the hell anybody helping me do anything? I went to Walmart myself to buy food, wasn't nobody doing nothing for me."
In an outburst as he was leaving the room, Loyd cursed at the judge repeatedly and accused authorities of beating him.
"They done took my eye. They done broke my nose, broke my jaw. They did all this s---, said I resisted," Loyd said. "...I didn't resist s---. They just did that s--- and they're trying to hide it from the news people. But I'm here right now."
Loyd faces multiple charges, including first-degree murder, unlawful killing of an unborn child and attempted murder in the December death of Sade Dixon. He hasn't been charged in the death of Lt. Debra Clayton, who was gunned down while she searched for him outside a Wal-Mart store Jan. 9.
As he was leaving, Loyd had a message for the judge.
"F--- you," he said.