MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - Police are investigating after a woman was shot and killed, possibly by her own partner and in front of her own children.
Officers responded to the scene near Northwest 158th Street and 22nd Avenue, in Miami Gardens, Tuesday morning.
According to Miami Gardens Police, officers received a call of shots fired, and when they went into the home, they found the victim, 39-year-old Tamisha Marshall Huntley, shot to death.
Detectives said Huntley, a mother of four, was murdered by her husband, who was identified by family as 54-year-old Arthur Lee Pharr.
“The suspect was apprehended and taken into custody, so we do have the suspect in custody that’s associated with this incident,” said Miami Gardens Police detective Carolyn Frazer.
Huntley’s son, 18-year-old Arkevious Huntley, and her 11-year-old daughter were home at the time of the murder. Arkevious said he tried to save his mother before she was killed.
“[I] tried to push the gun out the way,” Arkevious said. “I’m her only boy. That’s why I’m here. I’m the man of the house.”
Now Arkevious is grieving the loss of his mother and remembering everything she did for him.
“I was always a smart kid growing up, but I wasn’t always the best kid,” he said, voice cracking with sorrow, “but my momma never looked at me no type of way; she never judged me. She always pushed me to do better. Even when I was messing up bad, she still [saw] good in me … That’s what a lot of people don’t know about my momma. She sees good in a lot of people.”
“My momma would really push me forward to do a lot of things so,” he added. “My momma was really like my motivational person, my teacher. My momma was everything to me.”
Arkevious described his mother as a selfless woman who put others before herself.
“She always prioritized us first over anything,” he said. “My mom’s was a God-fearing woman. She helped out a lot of people like, if you ain’t have it, my momma had it. She would give it to you just ’cause she know she would get it back out of the goodness of her heart.”
Huntley said his mother had a profound impact on those she interacted with.
“There’s so many people I see touched out here right now, and there’s way more that’s coming – traveling – just to get down here. My momma didn’t deserve this.”
Pharr has been charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm during a felony.
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