{"id":225928,"date":"2026-04-10T06:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:16:32","slug":"bodycam-video-shows-miami-dade-deputy-fatally-shoot-woman-armed-with-knife-nbc-6-south-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225928\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam video shows Miami-Dade deputy fatally shoot woman armed with knife \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New body camera footage is showing the moments a Miami-Dade deputy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/investigation-underway-after-deputy-fires-weapon-in-nw-miami-dade\/3761883\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/investigation-underway-after-deputy-fires-weapon-in-nw-miami-dade\/3761883\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fatally shot a woman<\/a> in a crisis who was armed with a knife back in February.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened Feb. 7 at a home in the 18900 block of Northwest 55th Avenue when deputies responded to a 911 call from someone who said their mother was locked in a bathroom and possibly harming herself with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mom is in the bathroom, I don&#8217;t know what she&#8217;s doing but she&#8217;s whimpering and I think she&#8217;s hurting herself,&#8221; the caller said in a video released by the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, the woman, identified as 52-year-old Karen Ivette Gomez, was still locked in the bathroom, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said she&#8217;d cut herself but refused to open the door for deputies, telling them to break it, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome outside, ma\u2019am,\u201d one deputy is heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Gomez responds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to help you,\u201d deputies continue, as Gomez replies, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no more help. I can\u2019t with this anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes, a deputy kicked open the door, and Gomez began walking toward a deputy with the knife raised above her head, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrop the knife, drop the knife,\u201d deputies shout.<\/p>\n<p>One deputy deployed a taser, but authorities say Gomez continued advancing while armed. At that point, another deputy fired his service weapon, striking Gomez.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, who was shot twice and had self-inflicted cuts to both of her wrists, was taken to a local hospital where she later died, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No deputies were harmed during the encounter. A 12-inch kitchen knife was recovered from the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Family members later told NBC6 Gomez was having problems with her husband and was suicidal.<\/p>\n<p>They said she was in need of help, not deadly force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was my mom, and nobody deserves to call for help and get shot,\u201d her daughter, Natalie Gomez, said in a previous interview.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating, which is standard practice in police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\tIf you or someone you know is in crisis, call\u00a0or text\u00a0988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u00a0or chat live at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">988lifeline.org<\/a>. You can also visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/speakingofsuicide.com\/resources\" target=\"_blank\">SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/a>\u00a0for additional\u00a0support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New body camera footage is showing the moments a Miami-Dade deputy fatally shot a woman in a crisis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,123,125,124,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-225928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-caught-on-camera","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-miami-dade-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}