On December 3, 2025 at approximately 10:06 P.M., Austin Police Department officers were dispatched to a residence in the 2100 block of 1st Avenue SE in the City of Austin, County of Mower for a disturbance. Dispatch advised officers that the reporting party, Witness 1 (an adult female) stated a female had been hit in the head with a bottle. Austin Police Department Officers Gentry Sovers and Isaiah Heeren arrived on scene first. Officers could hear yelling from inside the house and approached the front door, which was open.
Officer Sovers could see through the screen door and observed several people fighting with each other. Officer Sovers opened the door and observed Victim A (an adult female) had a cut on her forehead that was bleeding. Officer Sovers also observed blood splatter on the floor of the entryway. Victim A attempted to shut the door on officers, telling them they could not come in, but Officer Sovers stepped inside and spoke with Witness 1. Witness 1 told Officer Sovers that she had called law enforcement.
Witness 1 stated Victim A and Witness 2 (an adult female) are her sisters, and Victim A and Witness 2 had tried to leave the residence but Victim A’s boyfriend, GABRIEL FLORES JR, [DOB REDACTED], herein the defendant, was trying to stop them. Witness 1 stated the defendant hit Victim A in the head with an empty bottle in the front entryway. Witness 1 was not sure where the bottle was but believed the defendant may have taken it to his room. Officers located a full bottle in the living room on a coffee table, but Witness 1 stated that was not the bottle that Victim A was struck with.
Officers were unable to locate the empty bottle. Officer Sovers attempted to obtain a statement from Witness 2 but was unable to due to her lack of cooperation and intoxication. Officer Hereen spoke with the defendant. The defendant said he had been drinking with two of his friends until Victim A, Witness 1, and Witness 2 arrived. The defendant said Victim A had been at her mother’s home and did not have a cut on her head when she arrived at his residence. The defendant said he did not know how she was injured, and no one was around when she was injured.
Officer Heeren observed blood splattered on the hardwood floor in the living room, a full liquor bottle on the coffee table in the living room that had blood on it, empty liquor bottles, and glasses that appeared to have alcohol in them. Austin Police Department Officer Zachary Keesey arrived on scene and spoke with Victim A. He observed she had copious amounts of fresh blood on her face and blood on her pants, hands, and in her hair. He also observed a laceration above Victim A’s eye that was approximately one inch long and actively bleeding.
There appeared to be fresh swelling near and around the laceration. Officer Keesey asked Victim A if she would go to the ambulance to have her injuries checked out, and she agreed. Officer Keesey walked to the ambulance with Victim A, and once inside, asked her what happened. Victim A said she has been in a romantic relationship with the defendant for the last three years, and they reside together at the residence. Victim A said the defendant had friends over, but those friends left. Victim A said everything seemed fine.
