Staples couple’s son-in-law tragically killed in Florida

The son-in-law of a Staples couple was tragically killed by a mentally disturbed man June 24, while bicycling with his two sons near their home in Tampa, Fla.

Dean and Ellen Ogg were on their way to Florida to visit with their family (daughter Meghan, her husband, Pedro Aguerreberry and their boys Lucas, eight and Bennett, three)  when they heard the news.

According to an article in the Tampa Bay Times, Pedro Aguerreberry was bike riding along a path separated by a grass median on New Tampa Boulevard near Wood Sage Drive. He was pulling his younger son Bennett in a trailer device attached to his bicycle and the other son, Lucas, was pedaling alongside when they were struck by a car driven by Mikese Morse.

The article states that Tampa police said Morse, 30, had walked into a substation 12 days earlier rambling that he might hurt someone. He was taken into protective custody, officials said, but released days later. Police said he spotted the Aguerreberry family just before noon on June 24. He did not know them, but he spun his Dodge sedan around, crossed a lane of traffic, tore across the grass and intentionally crashed into the tiny convoy.

Pedro Aguerreberry, 42, was pronounced dead at a local hospital a short time after the crash. The younger boy was treated for a broken leg and the older one had minor injuries, the article stated.

Police said that Morse fled but within hours was located about two blocks away at his parents’ home. He was arrested and has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and leaving the scene of a crash with death. 

A GoFundMe page has been set up for the Aguerreberry family. It can be found at https://www.gofundme.com/5q52r0w.