Detectives say a woman was found wounded at a home and a teenage girl was later found injured inside a crashed Jeep.
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Broward County detectives spent the weekend working to explain how a reported domestic stabbing at a Deerfield Beach home late Friday grew into a second victim discovery, a crashed Jeep and the arrest of a 34-year-old man in neighboring Pompano Beach.
The immediate stakes in the case were larger than a single arrest. Investigators said an adult woman and a teenage girl both suffered stab wounds, and the presence of an injured minor brought in the sheriff’s Special Victims Unit and prompted contact with the Florida Department of Children and Families. The suspect, Eric Senat, was taken into custody after deputies said he refused a traffic stop and fled on foot after crashing. By Sunday, the public still did not know the victims’ conditions, the motive investigators suspect, or what happened during the hours between the first emergency call and the arrest.
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the first known moment in the case came at about 11:30 p.m. Friday, when dispatchers received a report of a stabbing in the 4700 block of Northeast First Terrace. Deputies and fire rescue crews responded to the Deerfield Beach address and found a woman with stab wounds, investigators said. She was taken to a nearby hospital. Authorities said the man believed to be involved lived with the victim but was gone by the time deputies arrived, turning the initial rescue into a search. For the next several hours, the public account becomes thin. Detectives have not said who called 911, whether anyone else was at the home, or whether witnesses saw the suspect leave. They also have not said whether the teenage girl was believed to have been injured at the same location or elsewhere.
The case resurfaced publicly around 3:30 a.m. Saturday in Pompano Beach, where deputies said they found the suspect’s Jeep near East Copans Road and North Dixie Highway. When a deputy tried to make a traffic stop, the driver did not stop, according to investigators. The vehicle went a short distance, crashed into a fence at a convenience store parking area and came to a stop. Deputies said the driver ran from the Jeep but was captured nearby. Inside the vehicle, deputies found a teenage female with stab wounds, according to the sheriff’s office. She was taken to a hospital, and the suspect was also taken for treatment of his injuries. The sheriff’s office later identified the suspect as Senat. That sequence added a second crime scene, a possible vehicle evidence trail and a new set of questions about how long the teen had been inside the Jeep and whether anyone tried to intervene before deputies reached the area.
What is publicly known so far points to a domestic case with several unresolved layers. The sheriff’s office has described the incident as domestic-related, but it has not publicly spelled out the relationship between the suspect and the teenage girl or said whether both victims were in the same household. It also has not said what weapon investigators recovered, whether body-camera footage captured the stop and arrest, or whether surveillance video from the store or surrounding roads helped track the Jeep. Those details matter because they could shape both the criminal case and any review by child welfare authorities. The decision to involve the Department of Children and Families suggests officials saw a possible child-safety component beyond the criminal investigation. At the same time, the assignment of the Special Victims Unit signals that detectives expect the case to require a more detailed review of family, household or abuse-related circumstances than a routine assault arrest would.
The charging picture also appeared unsettled in public by the end of the weekend. News organizations that checked Broward jail or corrections records reported that Senat faced murder-related and attempted felony murder-related charges. Yet in their initial public description, sheriff’s officials said only that he had been arrested in connection with the incident and that detectives were still investigating the circumstances. That left room for several possibilities, including amended counts, injuries that may have worsened after the first statements, or charges booked before a fuller probable cause affidavit became public. Without a court filing or detailed sheriff’s release, those questions remained open Sunday. What comes next is likely to unfold through first-appearance proceedings, charging documents from prosecutors and any later update from detectives about victim conditions, evidence collection and the timeline between Deerfield Beach and Pompano Beach.
The geography of the case gave it an especially jarring feel. One scene was a residential block in Deerfield Beach late at night, where rescue crews were called to treat a wounded woman. The other was a busy roadway corridor in Pompano Beach before dawn, where a damaged fence and an abandoned Jeep became the focus. Authorities released no public statements from relatives or neighbors in the first day of coverage, and they did not identify the victims by name. That left the public picture stripped down to essentials: two injured victims, one suspect, two cities and a narrowing window of time in which detectives believe the central events took place. As often happens in cases that start with a 911 call and end with a vehicle stop, the early facts came in fragments. The fuller story now depends on hospital updates, interviews, forensic work and court records that had not yet been released publicly by Sunday.
As of Sunday, Senat was in custody and the investigation was still active. The next significant update is expected when authorities release formal court paperwork or investigators clarify the exact charges, the victims’ medical status and the sequence of events that connected the home in Deerfield Beach to the crash site in Pompano Beach.
Author note: Last updated March 29, 2026.