Police: Man uses machete to slash someone’s head outside Miami-Dade store, claims self-defense

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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was charged with attempted murder after police said he hit another man in the head with a machete multiple times and leaving him with a large slash wound on his head following an argument at a southwest Miami-Dade shopping center.

Police arrested Elroy Fitz Yearwood, 26, on Thursday.

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According to an arrest report, the incident happened during the late evening hours of May 1, outside of Jamaica Groceries & Spices, located at 9587 SW 160th St. in the Palmetto Estates area.

Police said Yearwood had gotten into a verbal argument with the victim that turned physical when Yearwood went to his car to retrieve a machete.

The report states that Yearwood struck the victim on the head multiple times with the machete, then hid behind a car to avoid any arriving police officers, then, seeing that the coast was clear, came back out and started hitting the victim again.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews later took the victim to a nearby hospital with a “large head laceration,” the report states.

Miami-Dade police later arrested Yearwood at the agency’s Cutler Bay station, where he claimed to have committed the slashing in self-defense, the report states.

He was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to jail records.


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