MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - A man accused of shooting his mother-in-law in her Miami Gardens home has been caught and cuffed, officials say.
7Skyforce hovered over the scene where officers with the Miami Gardens Police Department Investigation Unit, as well as the Hialeah Police Department, performed a traffic felony stop in the area of Northwest 199th Street and 37th Avenue at around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to MGPD, the suspect, identified as 49-year-old Bilal Ismail, switched vehicles from his blue pickup truck after fleeing from the scene.
Surveillance video from a nearby gas station captured Ismail driving a silver Toyota RAV4 and entering the plaza as police tailgated him.
Officers were seen getting of their units with their guns drawn as Ismail emerged from the car, removed his shirt, had his hands in the air, and walked backwards until he was apprehended by responding officers.
Cellphone video from witnesses captured a big police presence in the area.
Ismail was arrested nearby from where the shooting happened.
It isn’t the first time he’s seen the inside of a jail cell. In 2016, he was arrested for selling synthetic marijuana.
Neighbors tell 7News he and the victim’s daughter had been separated for months.
The victim, who is in her 60s, is the latest victim in a string of domestic violence cases across Broward and Miami-Dade counties in the last few days.
She remains in critical condition at the hospital.
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