{"id":403958,"date":"2026-09-18T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403958\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:24:10","slug":"miami-man-who-fatally-shot-wife-in-front-of-their-daughter-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403958\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami man who fatally shot wife in front of their daughter sentenced to life in prison \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Miami man who fatally shot his wife in front of the couple’s teen daughter three years ago<\/a> has been sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

Alberto Molinet, 74, was given the life sentence at a hearing Friday.<\/p>\n

A jury convicted him in July of second-degree murder in the killing of wife Yulima Romero back on Sept. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n

Police and prosecutors said the couple had been arguing when Molinet grabbed an unloaded gun and pulled the trigger while pointing it at Romero.<\/p>\n

Romero hid inside a bathroom as Molinet loaded the gun and shot through the bathroom door then opened it and pistol-whipped her.<\/p>\n

Molinet proceeded to bite her and fired a second gunshot at her, hitting her and causing her to fall to the ground.<\/p>\n

The couple’s daughter, who was 13 at the time, witnessed the entire incident, and called 911 to report the shooting.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Molinet was upset because Romero wanted to have a friend come visit and he was controlling and wasn\u2019t having it.<\/p>\n

They also said Molinet forced their daughter to take photos and video of Romero’s body.<\/p>\n

At the sentencing hearing Friday, Romero’s attorneys asked for the minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years, claiming he had several medical issues including diabetes and kidney disease, among others.<\/p>\n

But the judge said a life sentence was appropriate in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami man who fatally shot his wife in front of the couple’s teen daughter three years ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,373],"class_list":["post-403958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403958","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=403958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}