HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Detectives investigated a homicide in Homestead Monday afternoon.
It happened at around 2:30 p.m. an apartment building near the corner of Southwest Seventh Street and First Avenue.
According to police, officers responded in reference to a dispute between a landlord and a tenant.
“I heard a dude in the house yelling,” said neighbor Dale Freeman.
That commotion was coming from inside a first floor apartment.
Upon arrival, officers said they found that the landlord had barricaded himself inside the apartment with the tenant.
Police said the department’s specialized and tactical units responded and forced their way into the apartment, where they found the landlord lying on the floor. He was then rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“Police arrived, they came in and hit the door and knocked the door down and dragged the man who was stabbed out of the house,” said Freeman. “He was covered in blood.”
Authorities didn’t release the landlord’s name, age or manner of death and didn’t say what led up to the killing.
Police said the tenant was taken into custody and treated medically after being tased.
Homestead detectives sealed off the crime scene and handed the case over to the Miami-Dade Police Department. That agency will now work to determine what led up to the deadly incident.