DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – A 32-year-old woman said she had dated a 27-year-old man for about 26 days when she feared that he had tried to kill her in Deerfield Beach, records show.
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The woman reported there was a shooting during her fourth overnight stay with him at a house on Northwest Fourth Avenue and Third Court, according to deputies.
“B[Expletive], I will kill you,” Larenzo Starling allegedly told her while wielding a gun outside the house, according to an arrest report.
In her report, Broward County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kristy Fleming described Starling as a “career offender” and convicted felon who was not supposed to be armed.
The victim “advised that she was in fear for her life ... and believed that Starling would have killed her,” Fleming wrote, according to the report.
A 911 dispatcher reported hearing gunshots and Fleming reported there were bullet casings outside of the house and bullet damage on the rim of the victim’s car tire, according to the arrest report.
It was unclear if the victim knew about the four felony cases in Starling’s record that preceded the domestic violence she reported.
Here is what Broward County and Florida records showed:
Starling, who was born in Fort Lauderdale, was 18 years old when a man identified him as the thief who stole his cellphone and tablet at gunpoint in North Lauderdale, according to an arrest report.
Broward County Circuit Court Judge Bernard Bober found him guilty of armed robbery, but he didn’t formally convict him. Instead, he sentenced him to probation and his orders included completing testing equivalent to a high school diploma.
Starling was 21 and on probation when police officers arrested him after a frightened woman reported a stranger was in her backyard in Coral Springs.
A police officer showed Starling surveillance video of him jumping over a locked fence after finding him with a “window punch tool,” gloves, and a beanie with eye holes, according to the arrest report.
Broward County Circuit Judge Peter Holden presided over the case and terminated his probation after Starling submitted a hand-written letter to Broward County Circuit Judge Marina Garcia-Wood.
“I went through some traumatizing situations ... I like pain cause pain the only thing I ever felt ... I got a daughter about to be born ... I want to do therapy,” Starling wrote in the letter.
Starling was 23 when a detective accused him of using a black 9mm firearm to shoot Drew Baptiste in the arm in Lauderhill, according to an arrest warrant. Baptiste survived the shooting.
Starling was 24 when Bober found him guilty of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm with a deadly weapon and sentenced him to probation again.
It didn’t take long for a probation violation. Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Starling months later in Tamarac.
Starling “was looking for people to sell narcotics to“ while carrying a fanny pack with a blade and two Krazy Glue canisters full of crack cocaine, BSO Deputy Daniel Park wrote in his arrest report.
Days before his 25th birthday, Bober found Starling guilty of selling or delivering cocaine, revoked his probation, and sentenced him to two years in prison with credit for 74 days served behind bars.
The Florida Department of Corrections had custody of Starling just two days before his 25th birthday and released him on Oct. 12.
Just seven months after his release from prison, the woman in Deerfield Beach reported that before the shooting she had gotten in a fight with him and she had bitten his arms so he would let go of her, records show.
Broward County Circuit Judge George Odom Jr. issued a warrant to search the house during the domestic violence shooting investigation.
“A firearm was not recovered from the search,” Fleming wrote, according to the arrest report.
On Friday night, Starling was at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.
Prosecutors had filed a new case against him Friday for possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon, a second-degree felony; aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, a third-degree felony; and discharging a firearm in public, a first-degree misdemeanor.
Starling’s bond was $38,500. Broward County Circuit Judge Susan Alspector was set to preside over the new criminal case.