NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Magdalena Dybkowska seemingly couldn’t contain a smirk as she was being booked into the Broward County jail on an attempted murder charge. According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Wednesday, the 34-year-old North Lauderdale woman is accused of shooting her sister.
According to an arrest report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 1800 block of Southwest 65th Avenue just before 4 a.m. Monday after a woman called 911 to report that “a lady across the street is screaming” and that she heard a “pop” that sounded like a gunshot.
The neighbor told arriving deputies that an unknown woman “began banging on her front door before entering a vehicle and fleeing the area” and “left behind a backpack in her yard, which deputies observed to have visible blood on it,” the report states.
Deputies said the neighbor pointed to a nearby home as the source of the screaming. They said when they went there, Dybkowska opened the door to reveal “blood on the floor” inside the home.
“Deputies issued lawful commands for (Dybkowska) to step outside so they could check for injured persons and secure the scene under exigent circumstances,” BSO Detective Eric Wilson wrote. “(She) instead retreated back into the residence against those commands. When deputies instructed her a second time to exit, she refused and began pulling away as deputies attempted to detain her. She was ultimately secured in handcuffs.”
Deputies said they went inside and found Dybkowska’s three children in the home, unharmed. They said they found blood on a couch in the backyard.
According to the report, Dybkowska’s sister showed up at HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital in Tamarac with a gunshot wound a short time later.
Authorities said the boyfriend of Dybkowska’s sister told investigators that the two siblings had been in a fight inside the home.
“(He) stated he attempted to separate them and moved with both parties to a couch in the backyard,” Wilson wrote. “(He) reported that during the altercation, the defendant produced an unknown make/model firearm and shot the victim in the shoulder at close range.”
The women’s mother, who wasn’t there, told detectives that her wounded daughter “called her from the hospital and stated that (Dybkowska) had shot her during an altercation,” the report states.
Deputies said Dybkowska’s sister ― and Dybkowska herself ― refused to speak with them about the incident.
The report doesn’t state what the two were arguing about and it’s unclear whether deputies were able to find out.
A Florida Department of Children and Families investigator took Dybkowska’s children to the agency’s North Lauderdale office.
In addition to an attempted murder charge, deputies arrested Dybkowska ― whom they identified as a native of Warsaw, Poland who’s lived in Broward for the last 18 years ― on one count of resisting arrest.
As of Wednesday afternoon, she remained jailed without bond in BSO’s North Broward Bureau jail facility in Pompano Beach.
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