8.Vincent Battaglia — Direct/Cross/Redirect

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Thank you.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: It's Vincent Battaglia, V-i-n-c-e-n-t B-a-t-t-a-g-l-i-a.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Good morning.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Right now, I work for an auto parts company.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: New Jersey.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: I was living at the Tealwood Apartments in Winter Park, Florida.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: I was enrolled in Full Sail University. I was in school.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. Yeah, I had one roommate, Brandon. Yeah, that was it, just him.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: About a year. A little over a year. I moved there in January 2019.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. Like, a couple times, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Thin. Like, very thin walls.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Almost daily.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: I was smoking a cigarette on my back patio.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: It was pretty late. I can't remember the exact time, but it was definitely anywhere between, like, midnight to 2 a.m. Like, right around there.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: A few months. Like, probably four or five months before that.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Of 2020, yeah. Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Pretty much just kind of, like, if -- if I do hear anything, like, through the walls or whatever, just out back, just kind of keep my mouth shut. Like, don't really speak about it or anything like that or say anything to anyone. And I just was like, Okay.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. Like, just kind of like (indicating), you know, finger over the lips. Like, kind of shh. Like, keep it hush. Like, that kind of thing.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: I do, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: The -- that sticks out to me from that night was literally just the loud -- there was a very, very loud noise that I heard that was loud and powerful enough to shake my bedroom wall. And I remember that because I was sitting on my bed on FaceTime with my girlfriend at the time and I literally felt the wall shake, and it stopped me mid conversation. And she even asked me through the computer, like, What was that? And I was like, I have no idea.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Before that, yeah. Like, it was just arguing kind of stuff.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: The last thing I heard was, like, the -- the loud noise and a little bit of shuffling and that was kind of it. It just kind of went silent after that.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Not clearly. And it was never really anything clear. It was just, like, you could hear arguing back and forth, just kind of, like, in -- kind of, like, an "I hate you, I hate you." Whatever it is, whatever the argument was about kind of thing at the time, that's really all it was, but it was never really clear enough to hear, like, the full argument. And, honestly, I never really paid attention to it too much. Even if I heard it, I kind of stepped into my living room to be further away from it, so...

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. Yeah, all the time. It was, like, a back and forth.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: No, no.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: The last sound that I heard was, like, the loud banging noise that -- it was, like, a very odd-sounding noise that I've never heard before this day, but it very much sounded like it was -- like, where my bed was positioned, it was kind of towards the back of the apartment and it almost sounded like it was coming towards me, but, like, on the side of me, you know. Like, it was just, like, a loud rumbling noise that literally sounded like it was kind of far away from me and then it, like, ended up, like, almost next to me. And like I said, the walls are thin, so, like, it's very easy to hear, like, through the walls. And not even just sideways, like, I can hear my upstairs neighbor. Like, all around, very thin walls.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: The back of the apartment. So it was, like -- there's, like, a little kick-out next to my patio, and that's, like, my -- that was my bedroom back there, like, along the grass back there.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: On the first floor, yeah, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Good morning.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes, sir.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Like --

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: I had never seen anybody there, but I had had other neighbors in the complex tell me that it has been on multiple occasions, so that's why --

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: No. The times that I was home, I never -- I never Saw any police at the -- at the apartment there.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. And with my schooling and stuff too, I used to have class at, like, 1:00 in the morning, so I would -- all the time I was, at random moments, like, just not home throughout the day and night and stuff like that, so yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes. It was one of the detectives.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yes. I can't remember his name, but yes.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah. Right around that time, yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: 7 p.m?

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Which day was this?

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: No. That day I actually got home from work probably around 1:00 or 2:00 or so.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: No. In the afternoon, because I went to work that morning at around 5 a.m.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: No. It was -- well, yeah, it was around that time, but it was really around, like, 10:00, 10:30 is when, like, the arguing -- I could hear it clearly. It was, like, around 10:30 at night.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Yeah.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: A little after that.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: It was a little after that arguing and stuff. It was probably around 11:00, 11:15. Probably 30, 45 minutes after, like, the arguing I could hear started.

VINCENT BATTAGLIA: Thank you.