MIAMI – Police officers reported a 27-year-old man who frightened Miami Midtown high-rise residents said he wanted to go into the witness protection program, the FBI was monitoring him, and his identity had been stolen.
According to a police arrest report, Efren Ferro was armed when he went into a deranged tirade and held four people hostage on Thursday at EVE at The District, a condominium near Northeast 36 Street and First Avenue.
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According to the report, witnesses said Ferro moved an oven and a refrigerator away from a wall before he took his first hostage to the lobby — where he took three more hostages — while pacing around and waving his gun.
According to police, Ferro walked outside of the building to shoot at a Toyota and took the victims’ cell phones. Detectives have surveillance video of the incident and a recorded interview with Ferro.
Miami-Dade correctional records show Ferro was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday facing four counts of armed kidnapping, four counts of armed robbery, and two counts of attempted murder.