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© Provided by The Palm Beach Post Sisters Sofia (left) and Rebeca Davila died Wednesday, July 22, 2020, outside their home near Lantana. A gunman fatally shot them and fled. [FAMILY PHOTO]

Rebeca Davila sought an domestic-violence injunction in September against the boyfriend of her 19-year-old sister Sofia.

The 20-year-old wrote, 'I fear for my safety because Anthony has stated he will kill anyone who files a restraining order.'

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On Wednesday morning, authorities said, Anthony Ashan Stoutt, 22, fatally shot the sisters at their mother's Lantana-area home.

Stoutt fatally shot himself Wednesday near St. Augustine. Authorities there had chased the man's car on Interstate 95.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday morning it had obtained an arrest warrant Wednesday afternoon for Stoutt for two counts of first degree murder. They'd spotted it and its license plate, which PBSO had included in an alert.

As of Wednesday, Stoutt was under the restraining order sought in September, and also was on probation following the 2018 beating of a different girlfriend. He went to jail in December for violating that probation. He got out July 3.

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PBSO has not named the sisters. Their family has invoked its rights under a Florida constitutional amendment approved in November 2018 and modeled after the national Marsy's Law victims' rights movement.

But The Palm Beach Post independently identified the sisters, and they were listed Thursday morning in the online deaths database of the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner.

On Wednesday, the girls' 48-year-old mother told The Post she could not yet speak about her loss. Other family members also said they were too distraught to talk.

According to their Facebook pages, Sofia Davila worked at a Delray Beach restaurant and had started taking classes at Palm Beach State College in December. Rebeca was a technician at JFK Medical Center North in West Palm Beach.

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The mother had bought the home on the 7900 block of Overlook Road in June, county property records show. Her Facebook page said she grew up in North Miami and had attended Palm Beach State. It said the family originally is from Guatemala. A family friend said the woman had a third daughter, but did not elaborate.

At least one neighbor called dispatchers at about 9 a.m. Wednesday to report shouting, followed by 'horrified' screaming, and then gunshots, at the home on Overlook Road, just north of Minor Road. A neighbor went to the home and found the women dead inside.

PBSO so far has provided no other details on the slayings.

It was Rebeca who on Sept. 17 had asked for the injunction against Stoutt on behalf of Sofia, who she said was too afraid to do it.

Circuit Judge Jessica Ticktin had issued it Oct. 2, effective 'until further order of the court,' court records show.

Rebeca had written that in May 2019, the man had followed Sofia and a friend in his car, and as they pulled up to their home — at the time, the Davilas lived in Delray Beach — the man stepped out with a hammer and 'asked if they thought he was 'playing with them.' '

Rebeca said the man pushed her and broke the friend's car tail light with the hammer.

Two weeks later, Rebeca wrote, the man walked into the Davila home uninvited, looking for Sofia. Another time, she said, he showed up at a public event and grabbed Sofia, then pushed Rebeca to the floor. She said he tried to punch her but missed.

On Nov. 22, six weeks after the injunction was issued, Stoutt was charged with battery after Sofia told deputies he had grabbed her arm and thrown a water bottle. The report identified her as still dating the man off and on.

Prosecutors dropped those charges. But the incident violated the conditions of a three-year probation issued in January 2019 in a plea deal related to an alleged August 2018 attack by Stoutt on his former girlfriend — a different woman — at a Boynton Beach restaurant, hours after that woman had filed for court protection. That sent him to jail from December to July.

The St. John's Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday morning to The Post that PBSO sent out an alert listing a car and license plate that they told St. Johns was believed connected to the sisters' murders.

Just before 6:30 p.m., deputies spotted the car on Interstate 95, southwest of St. Augustine, and gave chase, then laid down 'stop sticks' to deflate its tires, the agency said.

It said the driver went around the sticks 'in an aggressive manner,' then lost control and struck a guard rail. Deputies ran up to the car to find the driver had shot himself. The agency did not elaborate.

The driver died at Orange Park Medical Center, north of St. Augustine.

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LANTANA — Two days after Denecia Seward was found shot to death in a motel room last month, police named the 28-year-old man they believed killed her.

They even put out an alert with photos of Andre Ramirez and his car and shared its license-plate number.

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People claiming to be Ramirez’s friends and former classmates condemned his alleged act on his own Facebook page and demanded that he turn himself in.

Nearly a month later, he still is nowhere to be found.

'Did they find his (expletive) yet?“ one person wrote recently on the page.

'It's not unusual,' Craig Caine, a retired fugitive tracker with the U.S. Marshals Service, told The Palm Beach Post. 'It happens more than you can imagine.'

Lantana Police Chief Sean Scheller will say only that police are chasing leads in the July 26 homicide, the first confirmed fatal shooting in the town since 2017, according to a Palm Beach Post online database. The chief urged anyone with information to call his officers.

Off the grid

Two days after Seward, a 29-year-old mother of four, was found slain at the Super 8 on Hypoluxo Road east of Interstate 95, Lantana police issued an arrest warrant for Ramirez on one count of second-degree murder with a firearm. The agency said he “should be considered armed and dangerous.”

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The department provided photos of both Ramirez and his dark blue 2005 Ford Crown Victoria, with a Florida tag of NTQI88, that appear to be taken at the motel.

A guest who’d stepped outside for a smoke at about 7:30 a.m. saw an open door and found the woman on the floor of a room. Police said Seward had been shot once in the neck area but that several spent shell casings were found in the room.

Police have not discussed a motive for the slaying. But on a Facebook page for Ramirez, some people posted what appears to be screen shots of a Facebook exchange between Ramirez and Seward from March to June 2019 that suggests they were in a romantic relationship, at least at that time.

In past weeks, The Post made calls, texts, emails and Facebook messages to people listed as relatives or friends of Ramirez, both in South Florida and his native Chicago. They were not returned.

'It's not that hard to go off the grid, even a guy who's indigent,' Caine said Wednesday from Long Island. 'You know, there’s people we pulled out of homeless shelters.'

But, he said, eventually a fugitive needs money.

'We have people that swear up and down they haven't seen this person, and then we find out in the end they've been funneling money to the guy,' Caine said.

Ramirez, while named in the arrest warrant, is presumed innocent. But if he killed Seward, and the murder was ill-planned or even spontaneous, Ramirez also might not have planned what to do afterward, retired FBI agent Peter Yachmetz told The Post on Wednesday.

And Yachmtez said someone who might be hiding Ramirez might be anxious about a criminal charge of harboring a fugitive. Or lured by reward.

'Some people who really need money would turn in their brother,' Yachmetz said from the Orlando suburb of Winter Garden.

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County has a standing reward of up to $3,000 for information leading to any arrest, but private and public efforts often up the reward in the case of high-profile crimes.

Crime Stoppers has not yet posted Ramirez, saying it does so at the investigating agency's request.

Yachmetz also said fugitives, especially in crimes of passion, sometimes end up taking their lives.

Both retired lawmen also mentioned the dilemma for departments about whether to issue “be on the lookout,” or BOLO, alerts privately or publicly. They said the judgment call varies with each case.

Just four days before Denecia Seward’s murder, and less than a mile away, sisters Rebeca and Sofia Davila allegedly were shot to death by Anthony Stoutt, a former boyfriend of Sofia who was under a restraining order to stay away from her.

Within hours, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office privately issued an alert for Stoutt's car and license plate. That night, deputies near St. Augustine spotted the car and, after a brief chase and crash, Stoutt fatally shot himself, authorities have said.

After Paul Merhige allegedly shot six relatives, killing four, at a Thanksgiving dinner in 2009 in Jupiter, he evaded capture for five weeks, even as his name and photo were in the news nationwide. Then, a hotel clerk in the Keys watched as the national TV show “America’s Most Wanted” posted a photo of Merhige. The clerk recognized the man who’d been in Room 14 for a month. Authorities quickly arrested Merhige.

Andre and Denecia

Andre Ramirez’ Facebook page did not say when he moved from Chicago to Palm Beach County, but said he attended Forest Hill and John I. Leonard high schools as well as Palm Beach State College. Voting records for him show an address west of Lake Worth Beach.

State records show no arrests for Ramirez. Palm Beach County court records show two traffic citations and a 2018 misdemeanor marijuana possession charge for which he opted for pretrial diversion.

West Palm Beach police said he reported in May 2018 he’d gone to the Malibu Bay apartments along Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard after he’d answered an ad on a dating site, but that four men jumped and robbed him. He said he waited weeks to report the incident because he was embarrassed.

And, on July 31, 2018, two women told West Palm Beach police Ramirez and a man with a gun robbed them downtown. The women refused to prosecute.

A home address for Seward could not be found, although records indicate she was living in Lake Worth Beach in 2015. Several relatives and friends of the woman did not respond to requests for information.

Friends told other media outlets the day of the murder that Seward danced at an adult club but did not elaborate. Palm Beach County records show she obtained an adult dancer’s work identification in 2012.

Seward had two daughters and two sons and was 'known as 'toot' to her family or 'Layla' to her friends,' Terelle Seward — who did not say how the two are related — wrote in a webpage created to help pay for Denecia Seward’s funeral.

On July 29, the page's creator said the funeral had been paid for. “Unfortunately,” the note said, Seward’s mother had opted to keep the money raised so far.

“They have not been involved in Layla’s life for majority of her adult years and we (the family members closest to her) are all against them profiting from her death,” the note said. “We are so sorry it had to come to this point. We will have a in person fundraiser where the proceeds will be distributed entirely to her 4 children. Please request your money back and report this go fund me account.”

The page since has been taken down.

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Who to call

People with information about Denecia Seward’s murder are asked to call Lantana police at 561-540-5701 or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-TIPS (8477).

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: A month in, Lantana police still seek man in Super 8 homicide