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Florida AG Says Prosecutor Wrongly Charging Woman Who Acted in Self-Defense

By Cam Edwards
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is coming to the defense of a woman charged with murder in a road rage incident, demanding that Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell drop the charges and recognize that she was acting in self-defense.

48-year-old Tina Allgeo was indicted by a grand jury in February of this year, though even police reports show that she was not the initial aggressor in the incident and had reason to believe that her life was in danger when she drew her gun and shot her assailant.

Allgeo encountered Tsvetkov as they drove along East Colonial Drive near Primrose Avenue, east of downtown Orlando, as the man followed closely behind her. According to reports by the Orlando Police Department, the two quarreled after Tsvetkov struck Allego’s car and then struck her during an attempt to escape after she got out of her car to survey the damage to her rear bumper.

It further escalated when Allgeo side-swiped his car — accidentally, she told police in a written statement — as she followed him to get a closer look at his license plate. Video surveillance then showed Tsvetkov exit his car, open her driver’s side door and punch her repeatedly while trying to drag her out her vehicle before she shot him in the face.

Allgeo was arrested and later released on bond.

So, according to the Orlando police Tarlov physically assaulted her twice, and Allgeo only fired her gun after she had been repeatedly punched and was being dragged from her vehicle. Why was she even arrested to begin with?

Back in March, Worrell claimed that Allgeo “provoked the entire incident,” adding that “After Mr. Tsvetkov left their initial encounter, she pursued him, struck his vehicle with hers, which prohibits Ms. Allgeo from using self-defense as a claim if she’s in the commission.”

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