Man, daughter-in-law dead after South Miami-Dade stabbing, standoff and police shooting
A family quarrel inside a South Miami-Dade mobile home escalated to a stabbing and a police shooting early Tuesday morning and ended with the death of a man and his daughter-in-law, police said.
Miami-Dade police said Jose Gainza, 48, stabbed and killed his daughter-in-law, Ana Iris Rodriguez Reyes, 27, then barricaded himself inside a bedroom as police entered the home. When Gainza emerged from the bedroom and ran towards officers with some type of weapon, they shot and killed him, police said.
“There was an armed confrontation and we had to shoot him,” said Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta.
It was the second deadly domestic incident in the South Dade community in the past five weeks. In late January, Ernesto Caballeiro, 49, shot and killed the mother of his child, her mother and the child’s grandmother with a high-powered rifle inside the family’s Redland home. That shooting was was less than two miles from Tuesday’s crime scene.
Caballeiro was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next day in a wooded area more than 200 miles away, off of a highway in Pasco County. Surveillance video showed him leaving the Redland home with his newborn Andrew Caballeiro, who was about a week old at the time. Andrew still has not been found.
Police said they were alerted to Tuesday’s incident just after 7 a.m., when Gainza’s wife called police to lot 426 at the gated community of pre-fabricated homes at 19800 SW 180th Ave. She told them that her husband stabbed her daughter-in-law. When police arrived, Gainza’s wife, who has not been identified, was holding a toddler, who was unharmed.
A law enforcement source familiar with Tuesday’s incident said the toddler was the dead woman’s child.
When police from Miami-Dade’s Special Response team entered the home, Zabaleta said, they found Rodriguez Reyes unresponsive and Gainza ran into a bedroom. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue later said she was dead at the scene. Police began a dialogue with Gainza before he ran out of the bedroom towards them, police said.
The neighborhood of pre-fabricated homes sits just off Krome Avenue in an agricultural district of South Dade where farms and plant nurseries are as common as homes. One neighbor who didn’t want to be identified said it’s a quiet area where it’s unusual to see a police presence. She said she didn’t know the family.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting.
This story was originally published March 3, 2020 at 9:24 AM.
