Just after midnight on Monday in San Pedro, forty-year-old Russel Casimiro allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend thirty-year-old American Carrie Tripodis's home. Tripodi told police that she was getting ready to go to bed when Casimero knocked on the door and demanded she opened it. Tripodi did not comply so Casimero allegedly scaled up the side of the house and broke in through the balcony door that was unlocked.

Casimero reportedly then asked Tripodi for her phone. She says she gave it to him and he is alleged to have then repeatedly punched her in the face causing injuries to her face and severely damaging one of her eyes.