HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Police officers fatally shot a man in a house on Saturday morning in Homestead, according to police. A neighbor reported police officers surrounded his home and shouted orders before the shooting.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and officers with the Miami-Dade and Homestead police departments responded to the house east of the Ronald Reagan Turnpike.
“Agents are gathering evidence and conducting interviews. Our investigation is active,” Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for FDLE wrote in a statement on Saturday afternoon.
A SWAT team also responded to the house in the Sunrise community, which has a main entrance at Northeast Fifth Street and Southwest 162 Avenue.
The one-story house, where neighbors said a mentally ill man lives, is along the Sunrise Boulevard Circle near townhouses, an agricultural field, and an apartment complex. Neighbors said the man had previous run ins with police officers.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Joyce Grace Ortega contributed to this report.
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