Police shoot a homicide suspect dead in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood, agencies say
About 11 hours after Port St. Lucie police named Manuel Sanabria as an armed and dangerous homicide suspect, he was shot and killed by Fort Lauderdale officers Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened just before 9 a.m. in the 1500 block of Northwest Seventh Street. Port St. Lucie named Sanabria as the shot suspect around 11:20 a.m.
Port St. Lucie police said that at 9:30 Monday night they found a man shot to death in a car in the 6200 block of Northwest Duke Circle. Officers said Sanabria drove off in a 2016 silver Ram pickup with FL Tag QAZ8X. One database says Sanbria lives in that block of Duke Circle and has immediate family living in North Lauderdale.
On Tuesday, Fort Lauderdale police say they saw the silver pickup truck around Sunrise Boulevard and Northwest 10th Terrace and gave chase. The chase ended less than a mile away, in the 1500 block of Northwest Seventh Street, after Sanabria hit parked cars and a pedestrian, a man now in critical condition..
Police say the 38-year-old Sanabria got out “holding a black metal object resembling a firearm” and “charged towards the officers, taking a shooting standce, while pointing the object in their direction.”
Four officers fired, police said, hitting Sanabria “multiple times.” What Sanabria was holding, Fort Lauderdale police said, was “a piece a firearm.”
Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Patrick Lynn said the 38-year-old Sanabria “Our officers took the action they felt was necessary to defend themselves.”
Sanabria was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he died, police said.
As is standard, the four officers who fired at Sanabria are on administrative leave with pay during an internal review. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting.
This story was originally published March 7, 2023 at 12:02 PM.
