Grandmother calls suicides of Florida deputies a ‘tragic Romeo and Juliet story’

The grandmother of a Florida sheriff’s deputy who took her life days after her fellow-cop boyfriend killed himself — leaving their new child an orphan — likened the double suicide to a “tragic Romeo and Juliet story.”

“My coronary heart is so unhappy I assumed I used to be hurting earlier than I misplaced my stunning granddaughter,” St. Lucie County Deputy Victoria Pacheco’s grandmother Bernice Bartolini wrote on Fb.

“Tragic Romeo and Juliet story. They're now collectively ceaselessly,” she wrote. “This loss is so painful for everybody so please be sort and watch your loved ones maintain them near your coronary heart.”

Bartolini continued: “Victoria and I have been very shut after I lived in Florida, she was there for me. I want I might have been there for her. My insides are being torn aside, my coronary heart hurts so dangerous.”

In an earlier put up, she stated she felt like she was “watching another person’s life in a film, can’t grasp the reasoning for this ache.”

Pacheco, 23, killed herself two days after the daddy of her little one, Deputy Clayton Osteen, died on Jan. 2.

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Bartolini stated “my coronary heart is so unhappy” following the loss of life of her granddaughter.
Fb / Bernice Bartolini

Osteen, 24, who served within the US Marines, was awarded Deputy of the Yr in 2020, a yr after becoming a member of the division, WPTV reported, citing his personnel information.

He additionally saved somebody’s life after performing CPR on an individual who overdosed on medication, based on the information outlet.

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Victoria Pacheco died by suicide simply days after her boyfriend did the identical.
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Pacheco, who joined the pressure in 2020, acquired an award final yr for her involvement in additionally saving somebody who overdosed on medication, the station added.

“Clayton and Victoria have been joy-filled, first-time dad and mom enthusiastic about their rising household, enamored with their child Jayce, and so in love with one another,” an announcement says on a GoFundMe web page for the kid.

Victoria Pacheco
Pacheco and Osteen depart behind their child, Jayce.
Fb / Bernice Bartolini

“Tragically, for causes fully unknown and completely out of character, Clayton took his personal life December thirty first, 2021. Reeling from the shock of loss, Victoria took her personal life two days later,” it continues.

Sheriff Ken Mascara stated this week that his workplace responded to a name simply earlier than midnight on New Yr’s Eve and located that Osteen, who was off obligation, had tried to kill himself.

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Osteen served within the US Marines.
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His household eliminated him from life help Sunday, Mascara stated. On Tuesday, the workplace discovered of Pacheco’s suicide.

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