MIAMI – Richard Hollis was holding two kitchen knives. He shouted his food was poisoned. Officer Jaime Pino stormed into an apartment, saw the 21-year-old man near his mother, Gamaly Argentina Hollis, and fired his stun gun and his firearm.
That’s how records describe the fatal police-involved shooting on June 15, 2022, at the Pepper Mill Apartments at Kendale Lakes, in western Miami-Dade County. But there is more to the story.
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The shooting continues to haunt the grieving mother who had been accused of child abuse in 2017. Records show prosecutors have filed three new cases against her since the shooting.
Gamaly Hollis has a pending Sept. 20, 2022 case for three misdemeanor charges of stalking, resisting an officer without violence, and violation of an injunction. The Miami Herald reported on Friday night corrections released her on April 19 on a $1,000 bond after a year in jail — where the prosecutors want her back over her Facebook posts.
Attorney Natahly Soler, a Miami-Dade public defender who represents the grieving mother, told The Miami Herald she had a First Amendment right to her Facebook posts about the news that was public.
On Saturday, The Miami Herald published a police-cam video that is relevant to the pending case showing Gamaly Hollis confronting Pino: “You killed my son!”
Court records show prosecutors had filed a battery case against her son in 2019 and three cases in 2021. Two were for battery and one for resisting arrest. He suffered from a mental illness.
Court records also show that after the fatal police-involved shooting, the mother filed lawsuits against Miami-Dade County and The Department of Legal Affairs Bureau of Victim Compensation.