Authorities said the investigation began at a Deerfield Beach home and ended after a brief pursuit and arrest in Pompano Beach.
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A domestic-related stabbing investigation that began Friday night at a Deerfield Beach home ended hours later with a crash, an arrest and a second wounded victim in Pompano Beach, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
By Saturday, investigators were piecing together how one case produced two crime scenes, three injured people and a list of serious criminal charges that had not yet been fully explained in public. Deputies said they first found an adult woman with stab wounds at a Deerfield Beach residence, then located a suspect’s vehicle several miles away and discovered a teenage girl inside with similar injuries. The case drew in the sheriff’s office Special Victims Unit, crime scene investigators and the Florida Department of Children and Families.
The first call came late Friday night from the 4700 block of Northeast 1st Terrace in Deerfield Beach, where deputies said they were sent on a report of a domestic-related stabbing. At the home, deputies found a woman suffering from stab wounds and had her taken to the hospital. Investigators said the man who lived with her was gone by the time deputies arrived, turning the response from a single-scene emergency into a search for a suspect. The sheriff’s office has not said how long the woman remained alone before help arrived, how severe her wounds were or whether any neighbors witnessed the attack or heard a disturbance before deputies were called.
Hours later, the focus shifted to Pompano Beach. Investigators said deputies found the suspect’s vehicle near East Copans Road and North Dixie Highway around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and tried to stop it. The driver did not pull over, authorities said, and the vehicle continued a short distance before crashing into a fence. Deputies said the driver ran from the wreck but was captured nearby. Inside the vehicle, investigators found a teenage girl suffering from stab wounds. She was taken to a hospital, and the suspect was hospitalized as well for injuries authorities said he sustained. Officials have not publicly described those injuries or said whether the teenager was hurt before entering the vehicle or while she was with the suspect during the overnight drive.
The sheriff’s office identified the suspect as Eric Senat, 34. News outlets citing investigators reported that Senat lived with the adult woman found at the Deerfield Beach home. Beyond that, officials have released little about the people involved. The names and ages of the victims have not been made public, and investigators have not said whether the teenager and the woman were related. They have also not described the weapon in detail, laid out a full minute-by-minute sequence or said whether anyone else may have been present when the violence began. That lack of detail is common in the early stages of cases involving both domestic allegations and a minor, but it leaves a wide gap between the public facts and the larger story detectives are still trying to build.
Public records added another layer of uncertainty. NBC Miami reported jail records showed Senat facing attempted felony murder and premeditated murder charges. CBS Miami reported Broward County Corrections records listed two counts of premeditated murder and two counts of attempted felony murder. Those reported charges appeared unusually severe given that local outlets also said both victims had been transported for treatment and that authorities had not confirmed any death. NBC Miami said it had asked the sheriff’s office whether one of the victims died. By Saturday afternoon, no public explanation had been released for the discrepancy between the reported charges and the information available about the victims’ conditions.
Even with those open questions, the agencies assigned to the case offered clues about what investigators see as important. The involvement of the Special Victims Unit suggests detectives are looking closely at the relationships among the people involved, while the contact with the Florida Department of Children and Families signals concern about the teenage victim’s safety and circumstances. Crime scene investigators were also tasked with processing evidence tied to the stabbing scene and the crash scene, meaning prosecutors may eventually rely on physical evidence from both locations to explain what happened during the hours between the first emergency call and the arrest in Pompano Beach.
The geography of the case also stood out. Deerfield Beach and Pompano Beach are neighboring Broward County cities, but the shift from a residential street in one city to a roadside crash in another turned the investigation into a wider overnight manhunt. By sunrise Saturday, the Pompano Beach scene had become the public face of the case, with crime scene tape and deputies working around the wrecked vehicle. Yet the core of the investigation remained back at the house in Deerfield Beach, where the first victim was found and where detectives are likely trying to determine what sparked the violence and when the teenage girl became part of the chain of events.
Saturday ended with an arrest but not with full public answers. Senat had been taken into custody, both victims had been hospitalized and investigators were still sorting through evidence and records. The next major step is likely to come through a probable-cause filing, a first court appearance or an expanded statement from the Broward Sheriff’s Office clarifying the charges, the victims’ conditions and the relationship among the people involved.
Author note: Last updated March 28, 2026.