Pieron’s house was hit in a May robbery in which multiple men with guns entered the house and robbed the roommates of about $600.
Edward “Eddie” Pieron was born on the Fourth of July, and according to his own MySpace profile, the University of Miami student relished in many of the freedoms befitting a sociable college student living in South Florida.
That included a 21st birthday bash Friday night at the three-bedroom rental home in South Maimi, Fla., that Pieron shared with three friends to coronate his legal drinking status and celebrate the Independence Day holiday.
But Pieron’s life ended abruptly hours later, when police say someone entered his house and murdered the Los Angeles native.
Pieron’s body was found Saturday by a female friend who arrived at his house for a lunch date. She ran to a neighbor’s house seeking help; the neighbor then called the police, shortly after 2:30 p.m.
“It was such a massive amount of blood,” the neighbor, Ricardo Silva, told ABC News’ Miami affiliate WPLG-TV. “That image is going to stick with me for a while.”
“As I walked into the house, I looked to my left and saw the young man on the floor in a rather large pool of blood,” Silva told WPLG. “Blood on the couch, blood on the floor.”