FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Opening statements begin Monday in the penalty phase trial of confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz.
Cruz pleaded guilty last October to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
He faces either life in prison or the death penalty.
Authorities say Cruz, then 19 years old, used an AR-15 rifle, during the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in... [...]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives are investigating a fatal shooting on Sunday morning in northwest Miami-Dade County’s Brownsville neighborhood.
Witnesses said it happened as several people stood outside of the Foodland Market at 4610 NW 32nd Ave., near the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery.
Police officers responded after a ShotSpotter alert, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. A yellow tarp could be seen covering... [...]
CORAL GABLES, FLA. (WSVN) - A window washer has died after falling from a Coral Gables building.
On Wednesday, at around 2:20 p.m., the 40-year-old worker took a tumble from an eight-story building and fell to his death.
It happened on Giralda Avenue in Downtown Coral Gables, where a witness said the man fell from a roof.
When Coral Gables Police Department and Coral Gables Fire arrived, the man was pronounced dead on arrival.
The... [...]
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – A 19-year-old volunteer was secretly recording people inside a Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden restroom, according to the Coral Gables Police Department.
A Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden employee reported finding a mobile phone on May 21 that was recording a video inside a unisex restroom used by employees, according to an arrest report.
Detectives found the phone belonged to Justin Torres, of Cutler Bay,... [...]
Prosecutors show surveillance video that shows encounter inside home
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – It took a day and a half of deliberations for a jury to find both Richard Andres and Jonathan Gordon guilty of first-degree murder and guilty of burglary following the fatal shooting of 51-year-old Ivan Brandt.
Closing arguments began earlier this week after 7 years since the defendants were arrested on murder charges.
State... [...]
