Adopted Ukrainian son, 22, charged with murdering Florida parents, leading police on hourslong manhunt
Dima Tower is accused of stabbing his adoptive parents to death in their North Port, Florida home
By Danielle Wallace Fox News
Published September 7, 2023 1:00pm EDT
A 22-year-old adopted from Ukraine as a teenager has been charged with murdering his adopted parents at their Florida home before leading police on an hourslong chase.
Dima Tower, who recently celebrated his birthday behind bars, was booked into the Sarasota County Jail on two counts of murder last week.
Local reports say Tower is accused of brutally stabbing his two adoptive parents, 49-year-old Robbie Tower and 51-year-old Jennifer Tower, in the home they lived in together in North Port, Florida. Relatives said the couple, unable to have children on their own, adopted Dima from an orphanage in Ukraine at age 14.
Robbie Tower’s uncle, Warren Rines, describe the couple to the New York Post as "two really good, caring people."
The couple, active in the Christian church, went on several mission trips to Ukraine and eventually adopted Dima, whose biological mother died when he was a child and biological father abandoned him at an orphanage. The then-teenager would have bruises on him from his time at the orphanage, Rines recalled to the Post.
"When they went out to eat, he would have like six hot dogs. He wasn’t getting a lot to eat. These orphanages are like prison for kids," Rines said.
"When I first met him, he was interested in boxing," Rines, a martial arts enthusiast himself, added. "But he didn’t want to box. He wanted to hit. He wanted to hurt."
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