Miami police officer threatens to report police aide before death, friends say

Carl Patrick told girlfriend Tiniko Thompson that if she didn't move out of his house, he was going to report credit card fraud to police, friends say

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A veteran Miami police officer told friends he threatened to report the Miami police public service aide -- accused of killing him in Pembroke Pines -- to internal affairs.

The two Miami police employees' romantic affair wasn't working out. Officer Carl Patrick told friends he stayed with Tiniko Thompson, because she said she was pregnant. He wasn't sure if the baby was his. He said he had warned her that after the birth, he was going to get a DNA test.

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The birth was delayed. Patrick grew suspicious, after she said her doctor had miscounted the months. When a credit card he had not used in 15 years, suddenly had a balance of more than $12,000, he knew it was her. She denied it. He began to look around for evidence and found the "micro pieces" in the garbage.

"He was like 'this, this girl gotta get outta my house.' He was like 'the main thing is that I just want her out of my house,'" Patrick's friend, Dashon Yearby, a fellow police officer, said.

Yearby's statement was part of about 400 pages of documents that Broward County prosecutors released Thursday. Yearby had advised Patrick to tell his live-in girlfriend that if she didn't move out, he was going to report her fraud to Internal Affairs. Before Pembroke Pines police found his body May 9th, wrapped in bedding, near a semi-automatic weapon, he told friends he had followed the advice.

Thompson, 46, was charged with his May 7 murder. Investigators accused her of not calling rescue, after he survived a gunshot wound to the shoulder at the Pembroke Pines home, 2180 NW 93rd Ave., where they both lived. She left a note in the kitchen and left him alone to die, police said.

The documents prosecutors released to Thompson's defense attorney showed she had lied about her pregnancy to family and co-workers. She had also lied about having a miscarriage. And yet she said Patrick was "sneaky" and was making her lie.

"There is no pregnancy," she told police. "He wanted to adopt."

Thompson said Patrick didn't want anyone to know about his issues with fertility. But friends and an ex-wife told police a different story. Patrick who had served in the Army and the Air Force had suffered an accident.

"He was involved in an accident when he was in the military on active duty where he severed his testicles," Patrick's ex-wife Nada North said.  North also said he had helped her financially and was "never confrontational about anything."

Despite wanting to end the relationship, Patrick helped Thompson, friends said. She struggled financially. Her car had gotten repossessed. Patrick told friends he was considering helping her get a 2007 Nissan Murano. After he died, Thompson was driving around in his BMW.

Thompson also told police that she had used Patrick's credit card to pay for medical bills, dinners and a trip. But she denied having ever cut up the credit card, which was under both of their names. Patrick told his friends a different story.

"I bought things for the nursery," Thompson said. "I bought underwear … Not that I took it and so let's make sure that's clear."

Thompson's friend Daniel Jackson told police that he had tried helping her with her "bad credit" by opening two credit cards. She had failed to make payments. She used one for educational expenses and the other for clothes for her daughter, Jackson said. 

Thompson's daughter Yaima Butler, 19, also struggles financially. She lives with Thompson's mother in Opa-Locka, doesn't go to school, and jumps from job to job, a cousin told police.

Butler said that although she wasn't a frequent guest at Patrick's house, she had seen him being violent a few times. Records show Patrick once pushed an ex-wife in North Miami. Butler said she saw him push her mom.

"When I was walking to the bathroom I heard them yelling," Butler said. "He was yelling again … I went and I stood by the door … he pushed her and she fell on something and the glass broke."

Relatives said that after Patrick was killed, Thompson had a black eye, scratches and bruises. She told them the gun had gone off when they were "tussling" after a heated argument.  That morning, Thompson said, Patrick was angry.

"He get mad and go crazy and say stuff … the other things he did to me and I never told anybody," Thompson said.

Patrick's friend said he had doubts about the claim that the shooting had been accidental. Yearby said he knew Patrick was careful with his gun and kept it on the dresser or up in his closet – never in his holster.

During an interview, Thompson's mom, Annie Braddy Thompson, said her daughter was afraid. The reason why she had failed to call police after the shooting, she said, was that she feared that "they would kill her." 

Thompson plead not guilty to second-degree murder. While waiting for her attorney with a Pembroke Pines detective, Thompson said she was afraid to go to jail.

"I'm not a murderer. Lord knows I didn't murder anybody," Thompson said.  "I'm not going to stay here. And he's not gonna take my whole fu--- house."

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