Father charged with slashing his daughter and her half-sister with a machete, cops say
Dennis Reid was supposed to see his daughters Friday, but instead slashed one of them with a machete, police said.
Sometime between 6 and 7 a.m., Reid, 47, arrived at the Lauderhill home of his 10-year-old daughter and her 17-year-old half-sister, Lauderhill police said. The girls live with their mother and another of Reid’s children.
It’s not clear what happened, but police say the two girls began fighting with Reid as their mother was upstairs. Shortly after, their mother heard screams coming from downstairs and ran down to see her daughters bloodied and Reid running out the door.
Shortly after 10 a.m., police got a 911 call from a woman saying that a father had “chopped up or stabbed his daughters with a machete,” police said.
When officers arrived at the home, on the 1100 block of Northwest 44th Terrace, Reid wasn’t there but the two girls were. One had head lacerations while the other had neck and arm injuries, according to police.
Both were taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale in serious condition. The pair are in surgery and doctors told police the injuries are not life threatening.
While officers were searching for Reid, dispatch informed them that he had turned himself in at the Broward jail and admitted to hurting the girls, police said.
Reid has been charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of attempted murder. He remains in a Broward County jail on a $100,000 bond.
This story was originally published February 14, 2020 at 1:42 PM.
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