‘A lot of pieces of the puzzle that are missing’

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Siblings Gabriela Cueli and Osvaldo Cueli III proceed to hunt a complete accounting of the occasions main as much as when cops shot and killed their father, Osvaldo Cueli, in the driveway of the circle of relatives’s 10-acre assets in southwest Miami-Dade County.

“I Just see two black RAM trucks go against traffic,” mentioned Osvaldo Cueli III. “Literally this one hadn’t even stopped moving and already started shooting. They came with no lights, this one shot out the window. I thought they were random people because they just came, no lights, no nothing. We couldn’t see through the windows because the windows were too dark.

At the time of the late-November shooting, Miami-Dade police said detectives with their Illegal Dumping Unit responded to a call about a possible stolen car, that shots had been fired and a firearm was recovered.

“I see the bullet holes start popping out and my dad is just standing there, hadn’t moved an inch,” mentioned Osvaldo Cueli III. “I am just screaming his name and he is just standing there, he never pulled out his gun, nothing, he was just like frozen.

After the shooting, Gabriela Cueli began taking video with her cell phone.

“No one is helping my dad,” she is heard yelling in the video. “I saw his eyes roll back into his head, they never once tried to save him, they never once tried to help him.”

Local 10 News has got new mobile phone video that confirmed Gabriela Cueli’s distraught expression as one of the simple garments officials grabbed at her wrist.

Her father seems to nonetheless be shifting however no person is rendering support.

“I kept telling them please help my dad,” she mentioned. “They were more worried about detaining me and my brother rather than helping my father who was dying.”

“The cops were not doing anything, they were not trying to give him first aid or anything,” mentioned Osvaldo Cueli III. “My sister and I are screaming at them the whole time, you didn’t do anything to help him.”

Attorney Richard John Diaz is uniquely situated to deal with the thorny questions legislation enforcement will likely be fielding from investigators and the public. He represents plaintiffs in police use of drive circumstances and could also be a former Miami-Dade police officer. He’s now not concerned on this case.

“There a lot of pieces of the puzzle that are missing that could change my views later on, but the officer attempting to hold a restrain the girl, which could also be interpreted as his effort to prevent her from videotape, that needs to be resolved,” mentioned Diaz. “Most stunningly is that nobody is giving any kind of comfort or assistance the victim who was shot on the floor who we can see is still alive. His hand moves, you can see his chest moving, he is still breathing. I guarantee if that was a Miami-Dade police officer on the ground, they would be all over him trying to give him comfort and assistance. That is what is very, very troubling.

“Even though you know he is probably going to die or not make it to the hospital, you have to try and save the life, even if he was a burglar, which he wasn’t, even if you thought he was an auto thief, which he wasn’t. Once you use that deadly force, you have to then try and resuscitate the person or at least give the comfort.”

Diaz mentioned he additionally doesn’t perceive why the arriving officials in unmarked devices and simple garments didn’t assume to request a marked unit to manner.

“You try to have uniform patrol make that first encounter, that first approach, because then there is no question that they are an officer,” he mentioned. “From what I read (of the initial police account), this was call to a suspicious activity, maybe an auto theft. That is not a crime of violence, that is not someone getting kidnapped, carjacked, that is not someone getting assaulted or battered, so it is always prudent to have a uniform unit arrive. Now, if that officer is 30 minutes out because you are in the Redland and you have unmarked unit, that approach should be made with our badge out, your police vest out. You have to notify yourself, identify yourself as a police officer.

“So that is odd as well, that they did not wait for uniformed patrol for assistance, because what was the hurry? What is the rush? You set up a perimeter, you watch, you learn. It seems to me they ran in there gangbusters.”

He additionally answered to Osvaldo Cueli III’s claims that an officer used to be firing at them via their windshield.

“Firing your gun through the front windshield of a car is if there is something coming right towards you that you have to immediately try to take out because you can’t move or duck, and it is very hard for me to imagine a scenario that would justify that type of risky discharge of a firearm, there are just too many things that could go wrong,” he mentioned. “This was an illegal dumping unit responding to a potential auto theft case. You don’t see a lot of auto thieves pulling out guns and shooting at police officers and you have to be trained to know that. To have guard up but to not overreact. It is a tough line to walk.

Diaz said in his opinion, officers “ran in too fast.”

“It was too fast and too furious. I think they ran in too hard, too early. This situation did not justify the way they approached the situation,” he mentioned. “So far, from what I have seen, based on my training at my time, there is always time to send in marked units. I mean, what is the rush? What is the hurry?”

He added, “Nowadays you have drones, helicopters, you have dogs, especially in an area like that, there is only a limited number of access roads and if you don’t catch the guys, guess what, here is the case card, go make a claim with your insurance, which they told me when someone stole my car from my house.”

Police mentioned the officials fascinated about the taking pictures took their allocated 3 administrative days following the incident and feature since returned to complete accountability.

Miami-Dade police has now not supplied any further information in this case, regardless of all the questions on the case, together with whether or not casings had been discovered within the officer’s unmarked unit.

Additionally, the police division has now not fulfilled Local 10 News’ request for the 911 calls that sparked the officials’ reaction nor authorized a call for participation to deal with the friction between their account and the circle of relatives’s video and account.

MDPD has most effective mentioned the case stays an lively investigation.