Man rushed into Miami condo before shooting, killing his ex and her daughter, cops say
A man who police say shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her daughter inside a Miami condo on Wednesday took advantage of a guest’s arrival to rush into their apartment, Miami police said.
Carlos Alexander Travieso, 48, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of Irisbel de la Caridad Cartalla Rivera, 50, and Isbelsy de la Caridad Olivera Cartalla, 22. He remained behind bars at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Thursday afternoon after he was denied bail hours earlier, jail records show.
Travieso is seen on security footage walking around the Yolanda Villas Condo, 801 NW 47th Ave., in Flagami about half-hour before the shooting — rushing into Cartalla Rivera’s apartment after she opened the door for a woman who came to get her nails done, Officer Mike Vega, a Miami police spokesman, told the Miami Herald on Thursday.
“He was hiding behind one of the stairways,” Vega said. “When they open the door, the lady who was going for her appointment walks in and he rushes in right behind her.”
As Travieso barged into the unit, he was seen on security footage taking out a gun, police said in his arrest report.
Around 9 a.m., police say Travieso shot and killed both women as their guest ran away unharmed. When first responders arrived, they found the mother and her daughter unresponsive and with gunshot wounds. Both were declared dead at the scene. Cartalla Rivera’s birthday was in three days and Olivera Cartalla’s was next week.
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While officers began to investigate what happened, they got a call from West Miami Police Department — Travieso had turned himself in at their police station, 901 SW 62nd Ave., and had confessed to shooting both women, police said. The woman who came to get her nails done told police she saw Travieso shooting Cartalla Rivera before she ran away.
Authorities haven’t said why Travieso killed the women; what he told investigators was redacted from the arrest report.
This story was originally published December 14, 2023 at 9:34 AM.
