Dima Tower killed US parents who saved him from Ukrainian orphanage: cops

A man adopted from a prison-like Ukrainian orphanage maniacally slaughtered the American parents who had saved him on Friday, according to police.

Dima Tower, 21, now faces murder charges over from the grisly slayings of North Port, Florida, real estate agents Robbie and Jennifer Tower, who had rescued him seven years ago.

Stunned police arrived at the home after receiving calls of a domestic dispute — and found the deeply religious couple positioned head-to-head on the floor of their blood-splattered living room.

“These were two really good, caring people,” Robbie Tower’s uncle, Warren Rines, told The Post.

“It just makes no sense, none of us understand the hate. They were the only two people in his life who ever tried to help him. They treated him like their own son.”

The suspect — who lost his mother as a child and was abandoned by his alcoholic father — sped away from the scene in the car his parents had bought for him before running into dense woods on foot.

He managed to evade capture for nearly eight hours until finally being taken into custody Saturday morning.

Rines told The Post his nephew and wife went on several Christian missions to Ukraine.

Unable to have children on their own, they decided to adopt the diminutive boy as a 14-year-old despite his wrenching past.

“He would have bruises on him in the orphanage,” Rines said. “When they went out to eat, he would have like six hot dogs. He wasn’t getting a lot to eat. These orphanages are like prison for kids.”

But the Towers, Rines said, were convinced their son could overcome the afflictions of his past if cocooned in their unconditional love and generosity.

The couple struggled to acclimate the boy to his new surroundings, and the unusually small student often got into fights in school.

“When I first met him, he was interested in boxing,” said Rines, a martial arts enthusiast. “But he didn’t want to box. He wanted to hit. He wanted to hurt.”

Still, there were periods of tranquility in the Tower home as both Robbie and Jennifer sought to reassure Dima of their devotion.

“It wasn’t all bad,” Rines said. “But I think the boy just had a lot of hate in him already before he came here. And I guess you take it out on the ones closest to you.”

Three years ago, Rines said his nephew was compelled to call police after Dima assaulted him and left him with a black eye.

He was sent to live with relatives on Jennifer’s side of the family for a period, but Robbie insisted that he return home.

“That’s how much he loved him,” Rines said. “They forgave him for everything. They bought him a car, whatever he wanted or needed.”

Police did not reveal a specific motive for Friday’s killings. They noted there were large pools of blood throughout the house, indicating a prolonged and frenzied attack.

Cops responded to the scene around midnight when a neighbor reported someone banging at her door and screaming for help. When she opened it, the woman was gone but had left behind blood spatter on the ground.

Arriving officers saw the suspect closing the trunk of his vehicle and ordered him not to move. But Tower ignored the commands and hit the gas, leading police on a highway chase.

He eventually abandoned the car and sprinted into nearby woods. After nearly eight hours, Tower was taken into custody at 8 a.m. the following morning.

“Robbie was a good man,” said Rines, who has set up a GoFundMe for the family. “He didn’t deserve this.”

Neighbors told local outlet WINK that the Powers were decent, kindly neighbors who were fixtures in their local church.

“Rob and Jennifer were really nice, sweet, good people, kind of people you really don’t see anymore,” he said. “In this day and age.”