Brevard officers search for man suspected in girlfriend's death

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Brevard County authorities said they are searching for a man in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Brandee Kelley, 24.

Agents with the Titusville Police Department said they obtained an arrest warrant on a second-degree murder charge for Quentin Woodruff, 29, of Mims.

The Brevard County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit, SWAT team members, bomb squad members, K-9s and negotiators were all called to the home to try to take Quentin Woodruff into custody.

The SWAT team used flash bombs before spending 10 hours in a standoff outside a home on Marigold Avenue in Mims Tuesday, but Quentin Woodruff was not found inside, authorities said.

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Sheriff Wayne Ivey said his department's best intel said Quentin Woodruff was at the home.

"Really it comes down to now collecting intel, finding whether they're here or they've fled somewhere else," Ivey said.

Quentin Woodruff's mother, Harriet Woodruff, returned to her home, where she said the fumes from some type of pepper spray forced her back out of the home.

"They broke the glass to this here and the glass door to the back door," Harriet Woodruff said.

Kelley was shot June 30 at the Emerald Place apartments in Titusville and later died at Parrish Medical Center.

Friends of Kelley said she had been hiding from her abusive boyfriend and was pregnant with his child.

"She was actually here to try to hide from him. She asked if she could stay until another girlfriend came and got her," friend Nicole Paine said. “She was actually turning her life around and doing the right things. It was just senseless.”

Harriet Woodruff said she isn't sure where her son is, but if she was able to talk to him she wouldn't know what to say.

Ivey said his department has exhausted every resource looking for Quentin Woodruff and will likely exhaust more until he's in custody.

"We're going to expend every resource to get him off the street because you can't put a dollar value on a life," Ivey said.

Quentin Woodruff is considered to be armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Woodruff is asked to please call Brevard County Sheriff's Office at (321) 633-7162 or Crimeline at 1-800- 423-TIPS (8477). You can also visit http://crimeline.org/ or text 'crimeline' plus your tip to CRIME (274637). All information to Crimeline is confidential and you may be eligible for a reward.

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