An Oakland Park man has been arrested in connection with his girlfriend’s fatal shooting back in January, records showed.
Miguel Hernandez, 41, was arrested Sunday on charges including manslaughter with a firearm and drug possession, Broward jail records showed.
The incident happened back on Jan. 24 near the 4000 block of Northeast 8th Avenue.
According to an incident report, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a shooting call and found Hernandez’s girlfriend, who’d been shot in the head and was lying in a pool of blood near the doorway of an efficiency.
Hernandez was nearby sobbing with his hands covered in blood and appeared distraught while shouting “help her, help her,” the report said.
The girlfriend was hospitalized in critical condition and later died.
Investigators searched the efficiency where Hernandez and his girlfriend lived and found a gun on top of clothing in a laundry basket just inside, the report said.
Hernandez had a glass pipe in his pocket and just inside the doorway of the efficiency was a pouch and two small glass pipes, the report said.
Court records filed last week said Hernandez was charged after he caused his girlfriend’s death “and/or assisted in [her] self-murder, to wit: by handing her a loaded firearm and encouraging her to kill herself.”
After his arrest, Hernandez appeared before a judge who ordered him held without bond.
“It is a unique and very unfortunate set of facts,” the judge said. “It’s not a run of the mill case, it’s a very unusual and unfortunate set of facts.”
Hernandez remained behind bars on Tuesday, jail records showed.