- November 10, 2024
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UPDATE: Aug. 25, 2023: Nicholas Alo pleaded no contest to all three charges — felony child abuse without great bodily harm, tampering with a witness and causing a child to commit an act of delinquency —on Aug. 9. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 13, 2023. Gabriella Alo's case is still proceeding and has not yet been scheduled for trial.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Two Palm Coast siblings have been arrested for allegedly beating up a teenage boy and then committing a hit-and-run as they fled the scene in Flagler Beach.
The siblings, 18-year-old Gabriella Alo and 21-year-old Nicholas Alo, are charged with felony child abuse without great bodily harm, tampering with a witness and causing a child to commit an act of delinquency. Gabriella Alo, who was driving, is also charged with aggravated battery and leaving a crash scene with injuries, while Nicholas Alo is also charged with violating his parole.
Gabriella Alo was arrested on Jan. 13. Nicholas Alo was arrested on Jan. 19. A third suspect has not been identified.
The incident happened at around 11:50 p.m. Jan. 11 at Wickline Park, when the two siblings and the one unidentified person picked up a teenage boy and the beating victim and drove to Wickline Park, according to their arrest reports.
There, the five got out of the car, and the siblings and the unidentified person began beating the 15-year-old victim. The other teenager was told to record the beating.
In a statement made to police, the other teenage boy, a 14-year-old, said the two siblings brought everyone to Wickline Park to “jump” the victim. The siblings told the teenage boy to join them in beating the victim, but he refused, the report said.
The three attackers and the 14-year-old boy left the victim there, and a teenage girl who witnessed the beating sat with him.
After some time, the attackers drove back to the park, and the two siblings began beating the victim again.
A mother and her adult daughter saw the fight between teenagers in the park, and the daughter at first mistook the attackers’ car for her brother’s car. She ran across the street to break up the fight, thinking the boy on the ground was her brother, according to arrest reports. The attackers got back in the car and reversed, knocking the woman over and running over her legs and ankles.
The woman was taken to the hospital with road rash and a broken ankle, according to the report.
Flagler Beach Police Department officers took witness statements from both women, while other officers found the beating victim and the teenage girl. The 15-year-old beating victim was able to identify the two siblings involved, and the FBPD was able to identify the car’s license plate from security camera footage.
After Flagler Beach police officers tracked down the 14-year-old boy, he told officers that the Alo siblings drove the four of them to a hotel in Jacksonville after hitting the woman.
Gabriella Alo made everyone remove their sim cards and turn off their phones, he said. He said he had to call his father to pick him up because the siblings would not take him home and threatened to beat him up if he “snitched.”
Gabriella and Nicholas Alo are being held at the county jail.
This story has been updated to include the suspects' names.
