FL - Six slain in apartment building shooting spree, Hialeah, 27 July 2013

Previous article before gunman killed:

SWAT, police search for gunman in deadly double shooting

HIALEAH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police are searching for a gunman in connection with a shooting that claimed the lives of the manager of a South Florida apartment building and his wife, Friday.

Authorities said a SWAT team has the alleged shooter surrounded inside the Todeo Apartments on the 1400 block of West 46th Street in Hialeah, the setting for the deadly incident and, according to police, the location where the alleged shooter has barricaded himself...........

Shamira Pisciotti, the victims' daughter, said she heard the bullets that took her parents' lives. "I heard 15 to 20 shots," she said. "I went outside, and my neighbors were screaming that my parents had been shot."


Read more: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/l...nman-in-deadly-double-shooting/#ixzz2aEnqe4pb
 
There's just too many shootings....every week more and more.
Doesn't seem people want to discuss things anymore. Imoo
 
Gunman Among 7 Dead After Fla. Shootout

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gunman-dead-fla-apartment-shootout-19790189

A gunman holding hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early Saturday following an hours-long standoff, police said......

The dead bodies of three women and two men were found at two different apartment units inside the building, which Rodriguez said was in a "very quiet neighborhood." Another man who was walking his children into an apartment across the street also was killed. Rodriguez said it wasn't immediately clear whether the gunman took aim at him from an upper-level balcony or if he was hit by a stray bullet.....

Rodriguez said police were still investigating the motive and identifying the gunman and victims.......more.....
 
Pedro Vargas ID'd as gunman behind deadly rampage in Hialeah, Florida

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...man-behind-deadly-rampage-in-hialeah-florida/

HIALEAH, Fla. Police say the gunman who killed six people and took two others hostage before a SWAT team fatally shot him was a 43-year-old resident of the South Florida apartment complex.......

Police spokesman Carl Zogby has identified the man as Pedro Vargas.

Zogby says the incident began when Vargas set his apartment on fire Friday evening. The building managers noticed smoke and ran to his apartment, and Zogby said he shot and killed the couple when they arrived.......

Zogby said the gunman moved from floor to floor, eventually barricading himself in an apartment with two hostages......

"They made the decision to go in there and save and rescue the hostages," Rodriguez said. Both hostages survived......

Zulima Niebles said police told her that three of her family members were among the victims. She said her sister Merly Sophia Niebles, her sister's husband, and her sister's daughter Priscila Perez, 16, were all shot and killed...........

More at link....
 
Police were looking into the possibility that Vargas -- described by some as a "quiet" man -- may have had a dispute with the building managers, who were among his victims, Zogby said.

But that had not been established. An initial check indicated that Vargas had no criminal history and no history of irrational behavior. "We don't have an explanation," Zogby said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/florida-shooting

What could have caused this man to take so many innocent lives??

How tragic. :(
 
"Neighbors give contrasting descriptions of Fla. apartment gunman"

"The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a South Florida apartment complex was described as a quiet man who took his mother to doctor appointments, yet also someone who was known for getting into fights and yelling at his mom."

"The conflicting portrayals of Pedro Vargas, 42, emerged as police tried to piece together why he set ablaze the apartment he lived in with his mother and then killed six people before police fatally shot him."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/2...criptions-fla-apartment-gunman/#ixzz2aLMo7cor
 

Members online

Online statistics

Members online
110
Guests online
785
Total visitors
895

Forum statistics

Threads
589,927
Messages
17,927,767
Members
228,002
Latest member
zipperoni
Back
Top