HIALEAH, Fla. — The Hialeah Police Department released surveillance video showing a murder early Wednesday morning in a residential area just east of the Palmetto Expressway.
The video shows a school bus before sunrise on West 56 Street at 20th Avenue, and a man walking at a fast pace out of the Palm West Gardens condominium complex at 1990 West 56 St.
The man walks eastbound along West 56 Street on the southern sidewalk. Dairon Delgado follows him while wielding a firearm, points at his victim, and fires several times, according to police.
Delgado, 37, walked back into the condominium complex and drove away with a woman in a black SUV, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
Police officers responded shortly before 6:20 a.m. and found the man who had been shot several times “in the torso” before fire rescue personnel pronounced him dead, according to the police arrest report.
“Patrol officers located a puddle of blood and eleven (11) spent casings,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
At 9:30 a.m., a yellow tarp covered the victim’s body on the sidewalk. Residents in the neighborhood said they were afraid after the fatal shooting.
Homicide detectives talked to a witness who had access to surveillance video and knew the tenants in the apartment complex, according to a police report.
Detectives identified the woman who was in the black SUV with Delgado as his mother, whom he drove to work after the murder, according to a police report.
“She advised she observed the defendant shooting a firearm,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
The victim’s relatives told Local 10 News he was on his way to work when he was killed. Eddie Rodriguez, a spokesman for HPD, said the victim was in his 50s and described the shooting as a “random act of violence.”
Detectives reported finding a firearm in Delgado’s black SUV’s glove compartment.
“The firearm was inside of a black fanny pack observed on surveillance footage at the incident,” a police officer wrote. “The fanny pack contained [Delgado’s] passport and multiple identification cards within. The firearm caliber matched the caliber found at the scene of the incident.”
Hialeah detectives arrested Delgado at 12:55 p.m. on Wednesday at West Fourth Avenue and 18th Street, and Miami-Dade correctional deputies booked him shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records showed.
On Thursday morning, Delgado appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer. He faced a charge of second-degree murder, and Glazer denied him bond, records showed.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.
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