MIAMI LAKES, Fla. – Rolando Aguilar said his 34-year-old son and his 54-year-old ex-wife were among the five people who turned up dead on Friday inside a home in Miami Lakes.
While police had yet to release the identities of the victims, Aguilar said his son Dhani Aguilar and his ex-wife Joanka Aguilar died in the home near the intersection of Northwest 87 Court and 148 Terrace.
According to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, three of the dead were women and two were men — including one who shot himself.
Police officers first responded to the home at about 10 a.m., after a relative of the victims called 911 shortly after 9:50 a.m., according to police.
When no one answered the door, police officers broke into the home through a window and found the four shooting victims and a man who had shot himself inside in different rooms, according to Zabaleta.
By late Friday night, a team from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office had removed the bodies from the home. Neighbors said they didn’t hear the shooting.
Detectives suspect it was a murder-suicide. They were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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