Inset: Lyndell Demps (Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office). Surveillance video shows the branch cutter attack in a home in Florida (Orlando Police Department via WOFL).
A Florida man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for attacking a family in their home with branch cutters seven months after he was released from prison, where he served more than two decades for an attempted carjacking.
Lyndell Demps, 52, learned his fate on Monday after being found guilty of home invasion robbery and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said in a news release .
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According to an arrest affidavit , the incident happened on June 15, 2023, when Demps surreptitiously entered the rear patio of an Orlando residence and repeatedly attacked the homeowner with a long-handled branch cutter, the document said.
Demps then went into the home through a sliding glass door that he shattered in the attack and demanded money from the victim, his wife and mother-in-law while holding the gardening tool over his head and swinging it downward, court documents said. The attack was caught on the home’s surveillance camera.