HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Authorities say a woman’s murder in Homestead Thursday was an act of revenge at the hands of her daughter’s teenage ex-boyfriend.
Police arrested Eli Zachary Shinhoster, 16, at his home in the Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade on Monday morning on a first-degree murder charge after accusing him of killing 39-year-old Eulalia Gonzalez Martin De Osorio.
According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Police Department, Shinhoster confessed to taking a rideshare vehicle to Gonzalez’s home in the 600 block of Northwest 11th Street just before 7:40 p.m. “in order to carry out his plan of killing one of his ex-girlfriend’s family members in order to hurt her because she ended the relationship.”
Police said Shinhoster admitted to pulling out a gun, shooting Gonzalez on her front porch as she held her baby daughter, then fleeing. The report states he admitted to putting the gun back in his waistband and ordering another rideshare home.
Police found Gonzalez lying unresponsive on top of her unharmed baby. A neighbor reported hearing Shinhoster saying, “I’ll fire,” before shooting her.
Gonzalez’s older daughter had broken up with Shinhoster about two months before the killing, police said. The pair had been in a relationship for about nine months.
In the time between the breakup and the killing, Shinhoster had been calling Gonzalez about her daughter, the report states.
Police said he also threatened Gonzalez’s daughter and “told her that if she was not with him, she could not be with anyone else.”
After police executed a search warrant at Shinhoster’s home, he was placed into juvenile custody, the report states.
It’s not yet clear whether Shinhoster, who is also facing a charge of minor in possession of a firearm, will be charged as an adult.
A GoFundMe page was created to help the family with funeral expenses and legal fees, and it can be found by clicking here.