Newly released 911 audio is providing additional insight into a violent attack at Stuart Beach in Martin County, Florida, where a woman was assaulted and held underwater late at night.
According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded [1] around 11 p.m. on Feb. 12 after receiving a report involving a woman who had been attacked while walking alone along the shoreline. The victim had gone to the beach alone “to clear her head” and was walking north along the water while talking on the phone with her sister.
Authorities said that minutes after passing a man on the beach, she was “brutally attacked,” grabbed by the throat, dragged into the ocean, and held underwater until she lost consciousness.
During the struggle, deputies said her phone was knocked from her hand and thrown into the ocean, disconnecting the call for help.
The newly released 911 recording captures the victim’s relative urgently contacting dispatch after the call with the victim suddenly ended.
“Her sister was talking to her on the phone and her sister just called me, told me she was talking and all of a sudden she started screaming and screaming and it sounded her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone and then the phone went dead,” according to the concerned caller.
During the call, the man told dispatchers the incident had occurred just minutes earlier.
He said he was speeding toward the beach and added that he was armed.
He provided identifying details about the victim’s vehicle, describing it as a white Ram 1500 Limited, and gave dispatchers a description of her physical appearance.
He remained on the line, updating his location as he passed the courthouse and headed toward Ocean Boulevard.
He also asked dispatchers to try calling the woman’s phone while he stayed connected.
According to the sheriff’s office, the victim eventually regained consciousness “half in and half out of the water,” crawled out of the surf, crossed the dunes, and made her way south toward the Stuart Beach entrance.
There, she encountered deputies who had already responded to the call.
Investigators later identified 26-year-old Said Alexander Hernandez-Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, as the suspect in the attack.
Deputies charged Hernandez-Gonzalez with attempted first-degree premeditated murder.
Sheriff John Budensiek described the case as an “extremely alarming case” and said the attack appeared to be a random act of violence.
Authorities have not released additional details about how the suspect was located, but confirmed that Hernandez-Gonzalez is facing the attempted murder charge in connection with the Feb. 12 incident.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said the release of the 911 audio sheds light on the chaotic moments following the attack and the rapid coordination between dispatchers and responding deputies. The case remains under investigation.