- November 17, 2024
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Jonathan Canales had told deputies that his girlfriend, 25-year-old Tiffany Norman, shot herself. Now, finally able to speak, she’s told them that he shot her, then left her bleeding on the floor, refused to aid her and denied her the use of a phone to call for help.
Deputies charged 27-year-old Canales Dec. 2 with attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, as well as delaying medical treatment and victim tampering. He is being held at the county jail.
The shooting happened at about 8 p.m. Nov. 15 at the couple’s Cherry Lane trailer, Norman told deputies.
The call didn’t come in to 911 until 10:45 p.m.
“I need an ambulance right now,” Norman is quoted as saying to the dispatcher in Canales' arrest report. She “was unable to explain why she needed it,” the report continued, and “a male, later identified as Jonathan Canales, the defendant, then began speaking” and stated something that is redacted in his arrest report.
Earlier reports said Canales had told deputies Norman had shot herself with a .22 caliber rifle.
“The dispatcher then asked Mr. Canales where the gun was and you can clearly hear Ms. Norman in the background state, ‘Stop lying,’” the report continued.
Deputies arrived at the house as medics were removing Norman on a stretcher. Canales sat in the kitchen, wearing nothing but a pair of green boxer shorts.
He agreed to be interviewed by Investigative Services and spoke to deputies in a recorded interview, but his statement is redacted in tis arrest report.
Deputies tried to speak to Norman, who was treated at Halifax Hospital, but were unable to until Nov. 25 because she was unable to communicate.
Norman told deputies the that couple, who are unmarried but have a child in common, had been at odds since the morning, when Norman wanted to go to South Daytona to pick up prescription eyeglasses for her son.
Canales had “baulked (sic) at the idea of traveling all the way South Daytona for a pair of glasses and refused to allow her to go,” according to the report. Instead, she told deputes, he went to garage sales all day, leaving her at home with the three young children. When he returned, she asked to take the kids, ages 2, 5 and 7, to the park. He refused to let her take the car. So she walked them there, returning as darkness was approaching to find that he’d locked her and the kids out of the house.
“Ms. Norman sat on the rear porch for approximately an hour before Mr. Canales allowed them to enter the residence,” according to the report.
She prepared the kids’ dinner at about 7 p.m., put the kids to bed, then ate her own dinner in the living room. Canales then walked past her into the kitchen, holding something. What he was holding is redacted in the report.
He made a drink and stood at the fridge, then said something, also redacted in the report, to Norman.
He walked back into the living room and then came around behind her, and again said something that is redacted in the report.
And “then she heard something ‘pop’ and assume that Mr. Canales walk (sic) away. She then felt a very sharp pain in her neck and had buzzing in her ear. Ms. Norman remembers seeing herself fall to the kitchen floor and then passing out.”
She tried to get up “but she could not make her body cooperate with her mind.”
“Ms. Norman stated that after some time she was able to muster enough of her own strength to exit the tub, put on clothes that she found on the bathroom floor, and proceeded to the table looking for her phone,” according to the report.
It wasn’t where she’d left it. She asked Canales for the phone and told him she was bleeding and needed to go to the hospital. He replied to her; the reply is redacted in the report.
She found his phone, according to the report, and called 911.
She told deputies, when she was able to communicate, that “at no time did Mr. Canales attempt to render aid in any fashion, contrary to his statements,” and that “she did not, in any way, shoot herself, contrary to his statements.” Her injuries are not life-threatening.
Deputies had charged Canales Nov. 15 with three counts of child neglect for failing to secure his loaded firearms inside the house where three children lived. He was released on bail, then arrested again Dec. 2 in connection with the shooting itself.
