MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Tributes continued on Monday for fallen Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Deputy Devin Jaramillo, who was shot and killed on duty after responding to a traffic crash on Friday.
A growing memorial for the slain 27-year-old lawman now stands outside the MDSO Kendall District station.
Members of Miami-Dade’s first responder community gathered at the site Monday to honor Jaramillo’s memory.
Bouquets of flowers were placed along his marked unit, where a framed photo and an officer’s prayer rest against a folded American flag on the windshield.
“I knew Devin. He was happy, spunky,” said Ronald Casallas with the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center. “My dad retired from the police department. This was my family, my second family. It is awful, awful, awful.”
Another deputy said the community’s response has brought comfort to the law enforcement family.
“The community coming out here, showing respects — it goes a long way in letting us know that you have our backs too, because we have yours,” he said.
“What better place to do it than at the station where he used to work,” MDSO Detective Joseph Peguero Rivera, an agency spokesperson, said.
Authorities said Jaramillo was responding to a minor traffic accident when he got into a scuffle with a man involved in the crash.
That man took the deputy’s service weapon and fatally shot him before taking his own life. A second person involved in the crash investigation was detained and later released.
Law enforcement officers say even a seemingly minor call can quickly turn life-threatening. Friday’s tragic events illustrate that daily danger.
“He was doing routine police work, routine police work,” said retired Nelda Peruyero, a retired officer who served 25 years with the former Miami-Dade Police Department and knew Jaramillo’s father. “This is not normal for a parent to bury a child.”
Peyuyero added, “Officers are always on their toes and their head on a swivel, but when you’re going to an accident, it’s just such a routine thing. For something to end like this — just no explanation for it, nothing.”
As of Monday, MDSO was finalizing plans for Deputy Jaramillo’s memorial service.
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