A Miami man shot his ex-wife 4 times near Kendall, then surrendered in Hialeah, cops say
A violent ending to an argument in a home just north of Kendall included a Miami man pulling out a semi-automatic handgun and shooting his ex-wife four times, propelling her through a locked door.
That’s in the arrest report for Pedro Nunez, the 47-year-old Little Havana resident arrested Sunday in Hialeah, where he surrendered to city police four hours after the shooting. The report says Nunez dispensed with his right to remain silent and told Miami-Dade police how he thought he’d killed his ex-wife.
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Nunez’s ex-wife survived, police say, and was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. She was scheduled for another surgery Monday.
Nunez was arrested on a charge of attempted felony murder.
Blood on the floor
The house in the 6200 block of Southwest 109th Avenue should have only one living unit, according to Miami-Dade property records. But the arrest report says there’s an efficiency apartment on one side of the house, and when that resident got home at 3:35 a.m. Sunday, he opened his door to find “a large amount of blood on the floor.”
Seeing the front door of the main house open, he left the house and called police. Miami-Dade police say they found Nunez’s ex-wife, the mother of their 10-year-old child, in her bedroom shot several times.
“While going in and out of consciousness, (she) was able to state the name of her ex-husband and told them he shot her,” the arrest report says.
As Miami-Dade Fire Rescue got her to a hospital, Hialeah police rang Miami-Dade police to say a shooting suspect surrendered to them.
Nunez, the arrest report said, confessed that he shot his ex-wife in a hallway of her home near the inside door of the efficiency, “which was locked and screwed shut.”
Nunez “advised he shot her approximately four times and stopped when her body fell towards the door, causing it to break open and the victim fell into the efficiency,” the arrest report said.
Nunez left and “called his father, advising his father he shot and killed the victim.”
