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Hialeah Standoff And Shooting - SWAT Officers Kills Suspect; 6 Victims Dead
- Published_at:2013-07-27
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Iivenews
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- description: SWAT officers shot and killed a suspect after he killed six people in an Hialeah apartment building, ending an hours-long standoff early Saturday, Hialeah Police said. "This is one of the worst shootings we've probably had ever in Hialeah," police spokesman Carl Zogby said. Police said earlier that the suspect was confined to a particular area of the building at 1485 W. 46th St. Negotiators were talking with the suspect, and police sent a robot into the scene, police said. Police had first received 911 calls at about 6:30 p.m., and police found an active shooter in the building, Zogby said. But after police discovered that six people were dead, and that the man had two hostages in an apartment, the SWAT unit decided there was no more time to negotiate, Zogby said. About eight hours after the situation began, officers moved in and shot and killed the suspect, he said. "The end result: seven people have lost their lives in this incident, six innocent victims and the one shooter," Zogby said. "Now starts the investigation, how and why this happened." VIDEO: Police Respond to Active Shooter Scene in Hialeah Zogby said the hostages were not hurt, and he did not believe that any officers were injured. Three of the victims were men and three were women. Shamira Pisciotti identified two of them as her parents, Italo and Samira Pisciotti. She said she heard the shots, ran over to her parents in the building, and found her mother dead and her father clinging to life. "I guess there was an altercation and the person opened fire on both of them. My mom was dead the moment that she was shot and my dad still had a pulse when I got to him," Shamira Pisciotti said. He died soon after, she said. Italo and Samira Pisciotti managed the apartment building. Shamira Pisciotti said she believed that there was a complaint about the shooter and that he confronted her parents about it, and that he then shot them. She said she heard about 15 to 20 gunshots. Several other witnesses said they heard between 10 and 12 shots. Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes, and a couple of streets in the area were shut down.
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