FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County Circuit Judge Frank David Ledee sentenced Luis Rodriguez on Monday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
When Davie police officers arrested Rodriguez on Nov. 6, 2022, they reported he was born in Havana, Cuba, lived in Miami-Dade County, worked at Rooms To Go, and had a restraining order.
Police officers identified Rodriguez’s three shooting victims in Davie as Lazaro Marrero, Rodriguez’s former father-in-law; Michelle Irias, Marrero’s partner; and a second woman wounded, records show.
Marrero was trying to protect his family from Rodriguez, the man who shot him on Nov. 6, 2022, along Southwest 47 Lane, at the Driftwood Acres Mobile Home Park, witnesses reported, according to police.
Davie police officers reported finding Marrero “lying on the porch.” Fire rescue personnel pronounced Irias dead. Inside the mobile home, fire rescue personnel found the other woman who had been shot and took her to Memorial Regional Hospital, court records show.
According to police, Rodriguez was suicidal, so a police officer deployed a Taser to arrest him before he confessed in a patrol car, court records show.
“I just lost it ... I was really mad at her family and I just snapped,” Rodriguez said in a patrol car, according to a police officer, court records show.
At the police station, detectives interrogated Rodriguez, who said he was undergoing psychiatric treatment and had not slept in four days, according to court records.
“I am so sorry for everything,” Rodriguez told detectives, according to court records.
On Nov. 7, 2022, while handcuffed at HCA Florida University Hospital in Davie, Rodriguez confessed again, court records show.
“I killed my father-in-law. How many years do you think I am going to get for this? I don’t know if I should laugh or cry,” Rodriguez told a police officer, according to a report.
Broward County prosecutors filed the homicide case against Rodriguez on Nov. 8, 2022.
Doctors at Memorial Regional Hospital pronounced one of Rodriguez’s Nov. 6, 2022, shooting victims dead on Nov. 13, 2022, and prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge on Nov. 17, 2022, court records show.
A grand jury indicted Rodriguez on Nov. 30, 2022, on two counts of first-degree murder with a firearm, one count of first-degree attempted murder, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, court records show. His arraignment was Dec. 5, 2022.
In 2023, during a pre-trial hearing in Broward County court, Kelly Luna and Sorayda Janania, two of the victims’ relatives, talked about their grief after the 2022 shooting.
“It was just painful. I could feel my whole body, just, it was in pain, it was in physical pain. As much as I’m scared of what’s going to be the outcome, I know that God is the judge in the end,” Luna said. “I know that no matter which way it goes, there’s going to be justice.”
After a trial earlier this year, a jury found him guilty on July 18. Ledee sentenced him to life in prison on each of the two murder counts and the attempted murder count. He also sentenced him to 10 years in prison, or two 5-year terms each, on the two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.
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