Sunday, December 21, 2025 - A woman was thrown behind bars after allegedly fatally shooting both of her ex-husbands in separate broad-daylight shootings on the same day, police said.
Susan Avalon, 48, was arrested on Wednesday, Dec. 17, and
slapped with murder charges after blasting one ex-hubby with bullets in Tampa,
then traveling more than 50 miles to Manatee County to fatally shoot the other
later that day around 3 p.m., according to Manatee County Sheriff Rick
Wells.
Investigators said Avalon was embroiled in bitter custody
battles with her former spouses, which they believe may have sparked the
cold-blooded k!llings.
“It doesn’t get any more brazen than this,” Wells told
reporters at a press conference Thursday, Dec. 18.
“We believe this was premeditated. She knew what she was
doing, it was planned and she came here to k!ll her ex-husband.”
Police said Avalon targeted her first husband — a
54-year-old man she divorced roughly 11 years ago — at his Manatee County home
around 2:55 p.m., luring him to open his front door with stolen food from a
Panera Bread before shooting him twice.
The unidentified man was rushed to a nearby hospital, but
succumbed to his injuries later that day.
Surveillance footage captured Avalon walking into the nearby
bread eatery and stealing food from the delivery pickup shelf without paying
before heading to her ex-husband’s home, authorities said.
Her live-in boyfriend allegedly told police she had recently
tracked down her ex-husband’s address.
The exes reportedly had ongoing custody disputes and about
$4,000 in unpaid child support, with Avalon facing a looming deadline to pay
$200 or lose her driver’s license.
Investigators tracked her silver Honda Odyssey back to her
Citrus County home after the shooting and found her scrubbing the minivan with
bleach and rags. But when asked by police about her ex-husband, she chillingly
replied, “Which one?”
“We only know of one,” Wells said.
“We start to dig into this second ex-husband that we know
nothing about, and we find she was married again after the marriage to our
victim, and that this ex-husband lives in Tampa.”
Wells said investigators alerted Tampa authorities, who
conducted a welfare check at the second husband’s Frierson Avenue home and
found him de@d inside with multiple gunshot wounds. The back door was also
damaged, suggesting forced entry, he added.
Officials have not disclosed the second victim’s name or
age, but believe Avalon allegedly k!lled him first.
Avalon, who was previously arrested on child abuse charges
in Virginia in 2004, was charged with second-degree homicide in Manatee County.
Wells said he is working with prosecutors to have that charge upgraded to
first-degree murd£r and the de@th penalty.
Avalon, who reportedly has five children between both slain
ex-husband’s, also faced two other child abuse cases in Tampa and Pasco County
that were later dropped.
She has not yet been charged in the Tampa shooting as police
continue their investigation.
Avalon is currently being held at Citrus County Detention
Facility in Lecanto.
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