Deltona felon points gun at babysitter, pistol whips man and steals rifle,

Convicted felon Victor Xavier Soto of Deltona had a busy day Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.

After pointing a gun at a woman babysitting his son on Tuesday afternoon, he pistol-whipped a man and stole his AR-15-style rifle, and then barricaded himself for four hours in a hotel room when deputies came to arrest him, according to DeLand police and Volusia County sheriff’s deputies.

Soto, 33, was being held without bail Wednesday in the Volusia County Branch Jail charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, two counts of possession of cocaine, introduction of contraband into a county detention facility, and obstructing a police officer without violence.

The charges were filed by DeLand police and sheriff’s deputies.

Florida Department of Corrections records show Soto spent two years in prison for grand theft and robbery and was released in August 2014.

According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Soto went to a Delaware Avenue home near DeLand where a woman was babysitting his son. The woman is also the child’s aunt.

She said she had been watching the child on and off for the past three months due to Soto not having a permanent residence, deputies said.

The two got into an argument. Soto got angry, took the baby and loaded his belongings in a car. While having the child in his arms, Soto pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the victim, deputies said.

“It don’t got to scare you, it’s going to kill you,” Soto told the woman when she said she was not scared of the weapon, deputies said.

Pistol whipping, AR-15 style gun taken

At 6:56 p.m. DeLand police said they were called to an incident on Woodland Boulevard where a man said Soto had pistol-whipped him.

Details of the incident were not immediately available Wednesday afternoon but DeLand police briefly said Soto pistol-whipped the victim and stole an AR-15-style weapon from the location. Soto also waved a handgun around while attempting to get money from another victim, officers with the DeLand Police Department said.

DeLand police said sheriff’s deputies would later arrest Soto on an aggravated assault charge.

Barricaded in hotel room for four hours

After Soto fled from the Delaware Avenue home where he pointed a firearm at the woman babysitting his child, deputies located him at a hotel in Deltona, the sheriff’s office said.

A sheriff’s office crime suppression team surrounded the hotel until Soto was taken into custody.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida felon pistol-whips man, points gun at babysitter

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