MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police have detained a retired police lieutenant who they mentioned shot at her boyfriend Thursday night time in southwest Miami-Dade.
According to police, officials answered to a ShotSpotter alert within the house of Southwest 282nd Street and 167th Avenue simply prior to 6:30 p.m. after receiving reviews of a shooting.
Police mentioned officials found out that Evelyn Fernandez, who used to paintings for MDPD, shot at her boyfriend, a retired City of Miami police main, however struck his automobile as a substitute.
No accidents have been reported.
Fernandez then fled the scene and barricaded herself within every other house within the house of Southwest 174th Street and 142nd Place, the place she remained till being taken into custody Friday afternoon, government mentioned.
Sky 10 used to be above the scene the place a automotive may well be observed crashed into the entrance of the house.
Authorities mentioned the Miami-Dade Priority Response Team and Special Response Team answered to the barricade.
Police mentioned members of the family have been within the house, however have been in a position to go away as government labored to detain Fernandez. They mentioned there have been instances the place she seemed that she would start to cooperate, however she would then exchange her thoughts.
According to government, pictures have been fired within the house through Fernandez all the way through the ordeal. She had holed herself up in her attic.
“After several hours, it was determined the subject (Fernandez) was hiding in the attic and while she was being taken into custody, she fought the officers,” Detective Angel Rodriguez, a MDPD spokesperson mentioned in a press liberate Friday.
Retired officer speaks to Local 10 News from attic all the way through standoff
In the 5 days previous the incident, Fernandez continuously referred to as Local 10 News reporter Glenna Milberg, whom the previous cop had met all the way through a prior tale, telling Milberg that she felt her lifestyles used to be at risk from the police division.
Fernandez informed Milberg that she used to be sure MDPD used to be out to kill her.
Local 10 News later spoke to her over the telephone all the way through the standoff, as officials shouted instructions to her whilst she remained in her attic.
Here are some excerpts from that telephone name:
Milberg: Are you OK?
Fernandez: No, they need to shoot me…don’t shoot…I don’t have. Look at my fingers, I’ve not anything!
Milberg: Who’s there? Who’s there with you?
Fernandez: I’m alone.
Male on megaphone: Evelyn, move slowly out to the outlet so we will see you.
Fernandez: Look at my fingers.
Male on megaphone: Come into the outlet, let’s move. (unintelligble)
Fernandez: I’m on my telephone. This is my telephone.
Male on megaphone: Ma’am (unintelligible), let’s move. We don’t need to harm you, we need to get you some lend a hand. Alright, let’s move. We can paintings this out.
Male on megaphone: (unintelligible) I would like you to move the left. I see your fingers, thanks. Move to the left somewhat bit, (unintelligible) the outlet.
Fernandez: Huh? I will’t. I’m, like, caught.
Male on megaphone: You’re proper. We want you within the opening. The second you get there we were given chilly water. We were given water for you. We want you to get within the opening.
Fernandez: OK, are you able to throw some chilly water up right here?
Fernandez, who used to be no longer armed whilst she used to be within the attic, mentioned, “Hold on. I can’t see you right now,” prior to the decision ended.
Milberg requested police about psychological well being in keeping with this week’s conversations with the retired lieutenant.
“Mental health is something that is at the forefront of this profession every day,” MDPD Assistant Director Rosanna Cordero-Stutz mentioned all the way through a news convention following Fernandez’s detainment Friday. “It is in the forefront of this community, specifically in law enforcement, every day. We will continue to work every day and get better at it.”
Fernandez faces fees of tried first-degree homicide, discharging a firearm from a automobile, shooting/throwing a perilous missile, resisting an officer with violence, and battery of a regulation enforcement officer, in line with prison data.
Previous incident
Back in 2016, fees have been dropped towards Fernandez, who used to be accused of breaking into the Coral Gables house of her ex-boyfriend, former Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez.
In that case, Coral Gables police mentioned a witness noticed Fernandez within the pool house of the development on Merrick Way, hitting a rear window of the condo with a ground tile after which throwing the tile into the pool.
Police mentioned there used to be no pressured access into the condo, and Fernandez does no longer have a key to the valuables.
Fernandez claimed to be at the house to select up her property, police mentioned.
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