Sep 3, 2008 12:49 pm US/Eastern
Armed Man Shot Dead In Pines Apt. Complex
Police Killed A Man Whom They Said Threatend Them With A Gun
PEMBROKE PINES (CBS4) ―
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Pembroke Pines suspect shot and killed in apartment complex
CBS
Pembroke Pines Police say they were forced to fire on a man who pulled a gun on them in a apartment complex.
The incident happened Tuesday around 2 p.m. when the man, whom police identified as Alejandro Figueroa, 37, of Dania Beach,
reportedly shot at two vehicles and then fled to the Archstone Harbour Cove apartments. No one was injured inside the cars.
Police say when officers caught up to Figueroa, he barricaded himself in an apartment. After several minutes he emerged and reportedly drew his gun on the officers who fired in self defense, killing him.
Firefighter Milton Parris was on his way to pick up his daughter from school when the suspect tried to flag him down.
"As I passed him, he was cursing saying stop the car so I didn't," said Parris. "As I passed him I looked in the side view mirror and I realize he's shooting at me."
Parris said the man fired at his SUV; at his vehicle's tires and the rear of his car.
"He looked deranged," Parris said. "He had something on his mind. He had the look of death."
Witnesses said the shooter also took aim at a couple; their car bore the scar from a bullet.
No one was injured.
A family member of a young woman rushed to embrace her, thankful she survived such a random shooting, saying "It's a matter of being in the right place at the right time."
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