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Details on how this went down:
http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/236186.html
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Two officers spotted the suspect, driving an old Honda Accord, near a housing development at Southwest 280th Street and 143rd Court. After first misleading cops, police say, his girlfriend identified LaBeet.
The officers, Jose Somohano and Christopher Carlin, tried to stop LaBeet, but he took off, parked and ran into a house — it’s not certain whether he lived there. The officers called for backup and, when a woman who turned out to be LaBeet’s girlfriend arrived at the home in a car, approached the home to question the suspect.
From inside the house, police say, LaBeet opened fire through a window with an assault rifle, possibly an AK-47, striking officer Somohano, 37, in the neck and killing him.
LaBeet then ran out of the house and, detectives believe, shot Somohano again, then bolted for his car, firing wildly at other officers now arriving on the scene. The officers returned fire, shattering the car’s windshield, but missed the suspect.
‘’That man didn’t hesitate to shoot,’’ Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said at an evening news conference.
Officer Jody Wright, 31, was shot in the leg, her knee shattered. She yelled on her radio that officers were down and needed help. Bullets grazed the two other injured officers, Carlin, 34, and Tomas Tundidor, 37.
Police say LaBeet sped away, with officers in pursuit. He crashed into a fence along the Black Creek Canal at Southwest 129th Avenue and 203rd Street, jumped out of the car — apparently ditching his weapon, which police recovered — and disappeared on foot.
Afraid to leave Somohano, officers picked him up and drove him out of the development in a squad car. Paramedics pronounced the officer dead.
‘’We had to extract him because we didn’t know if there were other assailants in the area,’’ said Maj. Carlos Garcia, who oversees the Cutler Ridge police district.
A teen who lives across the street from where at least one of the officers was shot gave The Miami Herald an account of the incident that meshes with initial police conclusions.
The 15-year-old said she had run outside after her grandmother said police were pointing a gun at a woman. She said she saw a car out front, with the driver’s side door standing open. A woman was in the passenger seat and two children were in the back.
She said the woman got out and grabbed the children and ran into the house right before the shooting started.
‘I heard somebody say, `Daddy, no,’ like a little girl,’’ she said. ``That’s when they started shooting.’’
The shooting came from inside the house across the street, she said. As soon as she heard the shots, she ran inside her own house and looked out her front window.
‘’I saw the police officer laying on the ground,’’ she said. ``I think he shot out the window because there were holes in the window where the police officer was laying.’’
Within minutes, police began swarming the scene and the surrounding neighborhood. In searching one house, they stumbled upon an indoor marijuana farm.
Streets and local highway exits were closed to seal off escape routes, causing nightmarish traffic backups and keeping residents from their homes into the night. Cars were stopped and trunks searched.
The search later extended to central Broward County, where police believed the suspect — whose mother lives in Margate — might head. Police erected then dismantled a cordon around that neighborhood but remained stationed outside the house into the night.
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