 Farmington Man Fatally Stabbed On Bike Trip In Florida 
 
 Kevin Adorno Was Headed To Miami To Propose To Girlfriend 
 
 Kevin Adorno, 28, of the Unionville section of Farmington, suffered stab wounds to his chest and arms after an unprovoked attack, Vero Beach police said. Paramedics took Adorno to Indian River Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A Farmington man who was biking from Maryland to Miami, where he planned to proposed to his girlfriend, was stabbed to death on Monday night by a homeless man outside a McDonald's restaurant in Vero Beach, Fla., local police said Tuesday. According to a Vero Beach police press release, Adorno was stabbed multiple times and began to bleed out on the bathroom floor of the McDonald's. Detectives in Vero Beach say a homeless man attacked and stabbed a bicyclist from Connecticut at a local McDonald's before fleeing to a Burger King across the street. He was charged with first-degree murder, police said. He also told detectives someone inside McDonald’s was using a laptop computer to order someone to attack him. "He happened to stop here in Vero Beach, grabbed a bite to eat, and was charging his cell phone," said Police Chief David Currey. According to an affidavit, the woman could hear the phone drop, then silence passed before she heard sirens. Cruz told police that he had spent a lot of time at the McDonald's after coming up to the area from Miami, according to the arrest affidavit. Cruz told police he'd never met Adorno and the two hadn't exchanged any words before the stabbing, according to the arrest affidavit. He stated that he thought Adorno was directing other people via cell phone to attack him and Cruz therefore felt threatened and attacked Adorno." Adorno stumbled into McDonald’s, where one of the witnesses ran to his aid and another person called 911, the affidavit states. After stabbing Adorno, Cruz went across the street to the Burger King where he discarded the knife and his shirt in the garbage, according to the arrest affidavit. Adorno started his journey in Maryland, and was on his way to Miami, when he was suddenly attacked by the homeless man. "He got on the phone with his girlfriend, who we understand he was going to propose to be married.
– Kevin Adorno set out from Maryland last month to complete an item from his bucket list: bicycling all the way to Florida. When he reached Miami, he planned to propose to his girlfriend. Instead, he was on the phone with her Monday night outside a Vero Beach McDonald's—less than 140 miles away—when he was fatally stabbed, allegedly by a homeless man. Rene Herrera Cruz, 59, told police who arrested him that he believed Adorno was on the phone with people who wanted to attack him, WPBF reports. But police say the attack was unprovoked and apparently random, and Cruz has been charged with first-degree murder. Cruz also admitted to hanging around at the McDonald's often, and said he worried that people were watching him there, the Hartford Courant reports; he'd called police from the same area the night before to complain that he thought someone would try to harm him. He said he'd never met or spoken to Adorno, but that he believed the 28-year-old Connecticut man was "directing the people to go after him," according to the arrest affidavit. Adorno's girlfriend told police she didn't hear an argument, just the phone dropping and then, eventually, sirens, TCPalm reports. Witnesses saw Adorno stumble inside the restaurant after being stabbed in the chest and arms and tried to help, but it was too late; police found him lying on the bathroom floor—carrying an engagement ring—and he was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Last month, a woman who beat cancer died in a freak "bucket list" fall.)