Teen fatally shoots his ex-girlfriend’s mother in Homestead after breakup, police say
A teenager faces a first-degree murder charge after Miami-Dade police say he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend’s mother in front of her Homestead home last week.
The 16-year-old boy, whom the Miami Herald is not naming because of his age, shot 38-year-old Eulalia Gonzalez Martin De Osorio in the head around 7:40 p.m. Thursday while she stood holding her infant daughter on the porch of her duplex house at NW 11th Street and 6th Avenue, according to his arrest report.
He then ran away and got into a white SUV, which drove him away from the scene, detectives said in their report.
He was arrested Monday morning on a warrant for first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a minor and taken to the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
Lissette Valdes-Valle, a spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors are reviewing the case to decide whether to charge the teen as an adult.
A neighbor who was standing on her porch next to Martin De Osorio told police that she saw the boy walk up to the house and yell, “I’ll fire.” The woman ran into her house, fearing for her life, according to the report. When she went back outside moments later, she found Martin De Osorio lying on the ground on top of her daughter.
The child was not harmed, police said.
Several witnesses, including Martin De Osorio’s older daughter — the ex-girlfriend of the teen — picked him out of a photo lineup.
After he was arrested and read his rights, the teen told detectives he ordered a ride-sharing car to drive him to the girl’s home with plans to kill one of her relatives because he blamed her for breaking up their nine-month relationship two months ago, the report states.
Police say the teen had been making threatening phone calls to the girl, telling her that “if she was not with him, she could not be with anyone else,” detectives wrote in their report.
After shooting Martin De Osorio, the report shows the boy also told police that he put the handgun in the waistband of his pants and got back into the white SUV that drove him to the house.
Police said the ride-share driver took him back to his home in Princeton.
