PLANTATION, Fla. – Federal and local law enforcement were working together as the U.S. Marshals Service tracked a homicide suspect who committed suicide on Wednesday in Broward County.
Yellow crime scene tape closed an area of Cleary Boulevard in Plantation. A yellow tarp covered the body of a fugitive who was wanted for killing his ex-girlfriend and injuring a man on Monday at a resort in Hallandale Beach, police said.
“I heard the helicopters, police came right through,” said Jayden Charlery, who said he saw the man’s body in Plantation.
The body was on the grass, between the road and a paved walking path, near a parked white sports utility vehicle that had a door open. Agents surrounded the vehicle.
“When they reached the window of the car, the suspect was located deceased in the back seat of the vehicle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Capt. Pedro Abut, a spokesman for the Hallandale Beach Police Department, said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference.
Abut did not release the identities of the suspect or the two victims.
Marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles were parked at about 12 p.m., steps away from the southeastern entrance to Los Prados Apartment Homes, a residential complex at 832 NW 86 Ave., near the Andover Academy preschool.
Police officers temporarily closed Cleary Boulevard in both directions between North Pine Island Road and North University Drive, the Plantation Police Department reported on Twitter. The agents and the officers cleared the scene just before 3 p.m.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Luis Castro and Frine Gomez contributed to this report.
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