ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Tina Allgeo, the woman accused of second-degree murder in a deadly Orlando shooting which prosecutors attribute to “road rage,” posted bond Saturday morning, records show.
Spending Friday in an Orange County court waiting for the bond decision, the judge later granted the 47-year-old a $100,000 bond, according to her attorney Mark O’Mara.
Allgeo faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She has pleaded not guilty to both charges, court records show.
She was arrested last month in connection to the December 2024 shooting death of 42-year-old Mihail Tsvetkov. Allgeo had previously been held without bond after a grand jury indicted her on the second-degree murder charge.
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Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell argued Friday that Allgeo should remain in custody without bond because she believes Allgeo is a danger to the community.
“If (Allgeo) had fired the weapon and missed, could any of those shots have injured or killed other people?” Worrell asked Orlando police Detective Patrick Cavanaugh during the hearing.
“Yes, that could’ve been possible,” he replied.
Allgeo told detectives that she confronted Tsvetkov after he tailgated her and bumped into her car that morning during rush hour. She explained in a written statement that she accidentally struck Tsvetkov’s car while trying to call 911 and get his license plate information.
Cavanaugh described the video of Allgeo hitting Tsvetkov’s Lexus, which was played during Friday’s hearing.
“She is parallel with the decedent’s vehicle, and she strikes the side of the vehicle,” Cavanaugh explained.
Worrell asked, “Did that occurrence appear to be intentional?”
“Yes,” he replied.
Another video, shown for the first time in court, shows Tsvetkov opening Allgeo’s driver-side door after the two came to a stop.
According to Cavanaugh, this act was an act of burglary of an occupied vehicle, a felony offense.
"Because it was an occupied vehicle. We have reason to believe he’s going to commit a crime,” he said on the stand.
But Worrell said the state does not share the same perception of the shooting, claiming Allgeo provoked Tsvetkov and that she cannot claim self-defense because the shooting happened while she broke the law in hitting his car.
“Allgeo could’ve avoided all of this encounter if she had not instigated this road rage incident — second, not have committed a forceable felony against Mr. Tsvetkov,” Worrell told the judge. “She had an opportunity to retreat; she didn’t.”
O’Mara said that he was “a bit surprised” the state would go forward with the second-degree murder charge, pointing to an interlude in the video between Tsvetkov exiting his vehicle and then allegedly beating Allgeo after opening her car door.
“He cannot suggest that she was an aggressor at that point, and he became the aggressor when he goes in there and starts pummeling her in her car,” O’Mara told News 6. “That is classic self-defense, when you shoot to protect yourself from further great bodily injury.”