Miami-Dade man shoots his dad over ‘infidelity issues’ with mother, deputies say
An argument stemming from a cheating scandal was still lingering in the air when Adrian Garcia’s mother heard a loud noise ring out through her Miami-Dade home Saturday evening. Just moments after she had stormed off from the fight with her husband, her son shot his father and was seen fleeing with the gun in tote.
Garcia is now charged with attempted murder.
The shooting was pieced together when officers responded to a call a little before 9 p.m. in the Flagami neighborhood, at 200 NW 48th Court, over the accidental discharge of a gun by Garcia, 25, on his father.
When they arrived at the family’s home, Garcia’s mother told police she and her husband had just quarreled over “infidelity issues” while in bed. Shortly after, the mother then described leaving the bedroom before hearing “a loud bang and observed the victim covered in blood.”
Garcia’s father suffered a spine fracture and internal bleeding to his neck. Details on whether his injuries were caused by the shooting and where he’s being treated are still unclear.
As the mother rushed to help her husband, investigators say she saw her son pick up a gun from the floor and leave the home. An arrest report details that she yelled at her husband to insist Garcia did not shoot him while he was being loaded into a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck.
Garcia was found hours later with the gun on him at West Flagler Street and Northwest 60th Avenue and detained. When officers searched the home to investigate, a spent casing with bullets to match were spotted in his bedroom.
His father’s “pooled blood was located in the hallway in front” of his room as well, the report reads.
Garcia was taken to the City of Miami Police Department’s domestic violence unit. He’s now jailed at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and was denied bond, court records show.
The shooting isn’t Garcia’s first time facing a charge related to domestic violence, either. He pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge in 2019.
