A man accused of attacking his girlfriend with a shovel and knife, killing her before fatally stabbing her 4-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to death in Florida, according to court records reviewed by Us Weekly.
In October 2025, a Hillsborough County jury found Angel Gabriel Cuz Choc guilty of first degree murder in relation to the April 2024 deaths Amalia Coc Choc De Pec and her son, Estrella, according to the State Attorney’s Office for Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit.
He was also found guilty of kidnapping and aggravated child abuse, according to court records.
After their verdict, jurors recommended that Cuz Choc, 33, be sentenced to death, a sentence prosecutors sought “because of the heinous, heinous and cruel character of the murders”, the prosecution said in a press release dated October 9, 2025.
On Friday, Feb. 6, Cuz Choc received a death sentence in connection with the murder charges, according to court records.
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Cuz Choc was represented by the Hillsborough Public Defender’s Office, who did not immediately return calls we’ request for comments on Monday, February 9.
During Cuz Choc’s jury trial, jurors were shown surveillance footage showing him stalking Amalia hours before he violently attacked and killed her and then her daughter, who was found stabbed to death in a bathtub at her mother’s Dover home, prosecutors said.
Cuz Choc was accused of beating and stabbing Amalia to death with a shovel and a knife outside her home on April 24, 2024, prosecutors said.
He then went in “to murder (Estrella) while she was in the bathtub,” court documents say.
After the murders, prosecutors say, Cuz Choc was captured on surveillance footage fleeing the home with a backpack. He was charged with having disposed of evidence.
Deputies eventually found him “hiding in dense brush,” according to court documents, which say he later confessed to “injuring” his girlfriend and Estrella.
During his trial, Cuz Choc testified that he did not remember the murders, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors told jurors that Cuz Choc attacked her because he “became angry when Amalia came home later than expected,” the state’s attorney’s office said in an Oct. 7, 2025, news release.
In a 10-to-2 vote, jurors decided Cuz Choc should be sentenced to death for Amalia’s murder, court documents show. The same number of jurors also decided he should be sentenced to death for Estrella’s murder, according to court documents.
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In a statement on October 9, when it was announced that jurors were recommending the death penalty for Cuz Choc, State’s Attorney Suzy Lopez said jurors had seen “surveillance video of a joyful 4-year-old girl dancing with a lollipop.”
The clip showed Estrella and her mother “enjoying a simple, happy moment” at a grocery store shortly before they were killed at their home, according to Lopez.
“Just 30 minutes later, the defendant would brutally murder them both,” Lopez said.
Amalia’s family told jurors at trial that Amalia, who was originally from Guatemala, was in the United States for work and would send money to her family, according to prosecutors. They said he had three other children in Guatemala.
After his sentencing, Cuz Choc filed a petition for acquittal on Feb. 9, court records show.