He pounded a woman’s face in 2018. He died suspected of killing an ex and her sister
The trail of violence connected to Delray Beach resident Anthony Stoutt ended with his death Wednesday, about 250 miles north where Stoutt allegedly killed an ex-girlfriend and her sister earlier in the day.
When Stoutt died at Orange Park Medical Center, he left behind an active restraining order against him for repeat violence, a warrant for two counts of first degree murder, and a domestic violence past that included punching the face of a girlfriend at her workplace.
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office says deputies spotted Stoutt’s Honda on Interstate 95. When Stoutt accelerated away while also trying to avoid tire-destroying “stop sticks,” SJSO says he crashed into a median guardrail. Stoutt had a gunshot wound when deputies got to him. SJSO says it’s unclear whether he shot himself before the crash or after but that their deputies didn’t fire a round in the pursuit.
Stoutt was 22. The victims in the arrest warrants were even younger.
They were dead from gunshot wounds when Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies found them Wednesday morning. A call about a domestic dispute with a shooting summoned deputies to the home in the 7900 block of Overlook Road in the Lantana area.
Though PBSO didn’t release the women’s identities after the family invoked Marsy’s Law, Palm Beach County media, social media and a GoFundMe page identified the women as Sofia Davila, 19, and Rebeca Davila, 20.
Court records from a Stoutt arrest in November 2019 — he was accused of throwing a water bottle at Sofia —say that Sofia was in a relationship with Stoutt since fall of 2018.
But online court records show it was Rebeca who filed the restraining order against Stoutt for repeat violence on Oct. 2, 2019. Palm Beach TV station CBS12 reports that Rebeca’s court filing, which was an attempt to protect her sister, claims that Stoutt threatened to kill anyone who filed a restraining order against him.
Stoutt nearly did that to the previous person who filed a restraining order against him.
A probable-cause affidavit says that in August 2018, Stoutt barged into Dean Anthony’s Pizzeria in Boynton Beach and shouted, “Where is she?” A coworker hustled Stoutt’s girlfriend into the bathroom and locked the door. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound Stoutt kicked in the door, tossed the co-worker aside, and proceeded to punch; she had an “extremely swollen” left side of her face, a swollen shut right eye, and “possible broken nose/broken left eye orbital.”
The girlfriend filed a dating-violence restraining order against Stoutt the next day. Stoutt was convicted of two counts of battery and one count of trespass, and was on probation for nine months.
Less than three months after this incident, court records say, Stoutt began dating Sofia Davila.
