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Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office says Miguel Hernandez handed a gun to Camille McGonigle and encouraged her to shoot herself; he\u2019s now charged with manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Miami Herald File<\/p>\n
Camille \u201cCammy\u201d McGonigle died earlier this year after she fatally shot herself, but months later Broward Sheriff\u2019s deputies now say that\u2019s only part of what killed her \u2014 pointing the finger at her boyfriend who put the gun in her hand and told her to do it.<\/p>\n
Miguel Hernandez, 41, was arrested Sunday and charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence in connection to the death of 37-year-old McGonigle, the sheriff\u2019s office said. As of Wednesday evening, he remained at the Broward Main Jail.<\/p>\n
On the afternoon of Jan. 24, Hernandez\u2019s mother called 911 in a panic as she thought she heard gunshots coming from his efficiency.<\/p>\n
\u2018Help her, help her\u2019<\/p>\n
Hernandez and McGonigle lived in the efficiency for the past year and few months as a couple, an investigation report read.<\/p>\n
Deputies rushed over and found McGonigle in a pool of her own blood but still breathing. Hernandez was on top of her, holding her, \u201cClearly distraught, crying, sweating and physically shaking,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n
Deputies initially detained Hernandez given his emotional state. \u201cHelp her, help her,\u201d he shouted. Oakland Park Fire Rescue loaded her into a rescue truck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI noticed her face was covered in blood and the back of her head was bleeding onto the clean white sheets of the stretcher,\u201d a BSO investigator wrote.<\/p>\n
A fleet of deputies ushered the paramedics through traffic as they raced to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. She later died from \u201cinjuries considered non-survivable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators questioned Hernandez about the shooting. They said he told them that McGonigle had a history of making suicidal statements in the past, which often happened during their fights.<\/p>\n
Her brother died by suicide about two years earlier, which Hernandez would remind her of to stop her from making those comments, deputies said.<\/p>\n
The afternoon McGonigle shot herself, the pair was having another argument where she allegedly said she\u2019d kill herself. He said he again brought up her brother to stop her, but that did not dissuade her.<\/p>\n
\u2018Go ahead and do it\u2019<\/p>\n
The Broward County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office ruled she died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n
The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office spent months processing the scene and collecting medical findings, witness statements and additional evidence. What they say they discovered was that Hernandez retelling of that afternoon was starkly different from the alleged facts.<\/p>\n
Detectives said he escalated the argument and \u201cactively facilitated\u201d McGonigle shooting herself.<\/p>\n
Hernandez had previously told investigators that she picked up the gun, cocked it and then later shot herself. He also said he didn\u2019t \u201cimmediately\u201d stop her because he didn\u2019t believe she would fire the weapon.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video inside the efficiency captured the entire ordeal, deputies said. It showed Hernandez rack the slide of the gun to chamber a round, handed the firearm to her and \u201crepeatedly encouraged her to shoot herself\u201d right before she did, deputies said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo ahead and do it. Go ahead and do it, you p****,\u201d he yelled at her as she held the gun.<\/p>\n
Investigators say his actions directly contributed to the circumstances that led to her death.<\/p>\n