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By: EFE Updated 17 Aug 2022, 0: 18 am EDT
A Hispanic officer of the Miami-Dade County Police, in South Florida, remains this Tuesday in critical condition after being shot in the head by an armed robbery suspect , who was shot dead by the officers.
Agent César Echaverry “is in critical condition” at the Ryder Trauma Center hospital in Miami, to which he was transported on Monday night shortly after of “being shot in an altercation” in the northwest of this city, said Alfredo Ramírez, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department.
According to local media, Police in this county received a notice on Monday about a suspected armed robbery in neighboring Broward County, north of Miami, who had managed to flee.
Officer César Echaverry He is in critical condition after being injured during a chase Monday night in #Miami. Case details. https://t.co/eGmVGGmsKw— Univision 18 Miami (@Univision23) August , 2022
The vehicle in the that the suspect, Jeremy Horton, was moving was located the night of that day and surrounded by patrol cars from the Miami-Dade Police, but the driver He rammed his car into the police and managed to make his way to flee.
A chase then ensued that ended when the vehicle Horton was driving collided with a car with three people inside, who were injured and then against an electric lighting pole.
Horton got out of the vehicle and fled, leading to a shootout in which Echaverry of 29 years, was injured in the head . Shortly after, the suspect was shot dead by officers.
According to the local newspaper Miami Herald, the seriously injured agent is still alive thanks to the fact that he is intubated at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where many agents have gathered to pray for the officer’s recovery.
In a brief appearance with the press around midnight on Monday, the county mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, and the local police chief, Alfredo Ramírez , asked for the solidarity of the community with the agent and his family.
Last year, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger died at shooting in Sunrise, northwest of Miami, at the hands of a child pornography suspect who shot at them from his home.
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