New body camera video shows a Miami-Dade deputy shooting a suspect who was wanted in a double murder in Pembroke Pines.
The footage released by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday shows the Sept. 14 shooting of 27-year-old Rashard Collins.
Rashard Collins
Officials said an off-duty Miami-Dade deputy saw Collins at a park in Miami Gardens and requested backup.
Collins spotted the off-duty deputy and ran, crossing all lanes of the Florida’s Turnpike, swimming across a canal and climbing a tree, authorities said.
The video shows the off-duty deputy pleading with Collins to come out of the tree and surrender, while another deputy is armed with a rifle.
At one point, the armed deputy warned the off-duty deputy to back up as it appeared Collins was “going into his pocket.”
Moments later, the armed deputy fires a shot, hitting Collins in the left hand.
New body camera video shows a Miami-Dade deputy shooting a suspect who was wanted in a double murder in Pembroke Pines.
Collins remained in the tree and refused to come down as deputies got closer and another deputy shot a less-lethal beanbag round at him, officials said.
Deputies were eventually able to pull Collins down and take him into custody before he was taken to a local hospital.
The search for Collins started on Sept. 10 after Pembroke Pines Police received a 911 call about an unresponsive and unconscious man found inside a garage at a home in the 1700 block of Northwest 109th Avenue in Pembroke Pines.
Once at the home, the body of a man, identified as Octavis Myers, who appeared to have been dead for some time, was found, officials said.
Officers then searched the home and found the body of a woman inside a bedroom.
Collins, who is the grandson of the homeowner, had gone missing before he became a suspect in the killings, police said.
Collins is facing two counts of first-degree murder with a firearm and resisting an officer without violence.