MIAMI — A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office sergeant has been cleared nearly a year after he shot and killed a suspect following a pursuit that ended in the county’s unincorporated West Little River area.
MDSO Sgt. Kelvin Cox shot and killed Kristofer Laboy, 24, outside of a building within the Sunset Palm Villas Association complex, located just outside the Miami city limits at Northwest 85th Street Road and Fourth Court, on June 17, 2025.
Deputies with MDSO’s Robbery Intervention Detail tried to pull over Laboy in a yellow Chevrolet Corvette with dark tints.
According to a memorandum from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, “Laboy had led law enforcement officers on a protracted and high-speed chase which endangered the lives of many individuals (and) nearly caused several crashes by driving at high rates of speed through traffic and on the wrong side of roads.”
Video evidence and a fellow deputy’s testimony, prosecutors concluded, showed that after the chase came to a stop at the complex, Laboy got out of the sports car with a gun and “ran directly toward” Cox.
Prosecutors concluded that a “reasonable person” in Cox’s position “would have believed that using deadly force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm” to himself or others, leading them to conclude that Cox was “was legally justified in using deadly force” and should not be charged.
Cox has served with MDSO and its predecessor, the Miami-Dade Police Department, for more than two decades.
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