HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A 16-year-old boy was transferred to the Metro West Detention Center Monday as he is now being charged as an adult in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend’s mother.
The attorney for Eli Zachary Shinhoster waived his appearance in court Monday.
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Prior to the transfer, Shinhoster had been held in Juvenile Detention since his arrest on July 1.
Miami-Dade police said the shooting occurred just before 7:40 p.m. on June 27 outside the victim’s home in the 600 block of Northwest 11th Street in Homestead.
According to Shinhoster’s arrest report, he took a rideshare to the home “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 and shooting Eulalia Gonzalez Martin De Osorio on her front porch as she held her baby daughter before fleeing the scene.
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 stated.
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 in the Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade, he was placed into juvenile custody, the report stated.
Shinhoster is charged with second-degree murder.
A GoFundMe page was created to help Gonzalez’s family with funeral expenses and legal fees, and it can be found by clicking here.
As of Tuesday morning, Shinhoster remained jailed without bond.