WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - The man accused in the fatal shooting of Cuban reggaeton artist El Taiger has been sent back to South Florida.
Damián Valdez-Galloso was extradited from New York and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Center in West Miami-Dade on Wednesday.
The 49-year-old was charged with second-degree murder.
Police said Valdez-Galloso shot and killed the renowned singer, born José Manuel Carbajal Zaldívar, in Hialeah last month.
El Taiger was found in an abandoned SUV near Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 3 and died at the hospital about a week later.
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