Crime

Police have identified the gunman in Kendall murder-suicide that killed a mother and child

A worker fixes the damages of a shooting at a West Kendall Chase Bank that was the scene of a murder suicide that left two adults dead and a child.
A worker fixes the damages of a shooting at a West Kendall Chase Bank that was the scene of a murder suicide that left two adults dead and a child. Devoun Cetoute Miami Herald

An ex-boyfriend was the shooter in a murder-suicide that killed a mother and her child in a West Kendall bank branch drive-thru, according to Miami-Dade police on Monday morning.

Police say Michael Andres Pineda Lozano, 41, shot 43-year-old Odalys Bancroft and 4-year-old Theodore Couto Friday moring at the Chase Bank branch at 4200 SW 152nd Ave., in their blue minivan before shooting himself.

READ MORE: Friends remember woman killed with child in Kendall murder-suicide

Theodore was the son of Bancroft and her ex-husband, Vicente Couto. A GoFundMe page has been created for Theodore’s funeral expenses.

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