{"id":413074,"date":"2026-09-28T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413074\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:54:08","slug":"man-shoots-at-fleeing-roommate-in-miami-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413074\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shoots at fleeing roommate in Miami Beach, police say."},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Miami Beach man is behind bars after, police say, he chased his fleeing roommate and shot at him several times on the street.<\/p>\n

Ricardo Miguel Valdivia, 26, appeared in court on Monday morning, with Miami-Dade Bond Court Judge Mindy Glazer granting prosecutors\u2019 request to hold him without bond. The judge also ordered Valdivia to stay away from the victim.<\/p>\n

Valdivia, who is facing an attempted first-degree murder charge, broke down in tears during his bond court appearance.<\/p>\n

\"Ricardo Ricardo Miguel Valdivia appears in bond court on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Miami-Dade Bond Court feed <\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, the victim flagged down a police officer at the Marathon Gas Station at 875 71st St. in Miami Beach. He said Valdivia shot at him while he was inside his vehicle at 71st Street and Bonita Drive, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n

The man said Valdivia was his roommate of six years \u2014 and that he was \u201cnot being himself\u201d since Thursday, the report states.<\/p>\n

On the day of the shooting, the victim said he picked up Valdivia from his job after he was told to go back home because he was \u201cnot ready to return to work.\u201d The victim said he didn\u2019t enter their Bonita Drive apartment because he didn\u2019t feel safe because of Valdivia\u2019s increasingly erratic behavior.<\/p>\n

The victim said he called Valdivia to tell him to go to the hospital, and Valdivia asked his roommate to take him. The victim told police he knew Valdivia had firearms, so he instructed him to leave all his weapons in the apartment, according to the report.<\/p>\n

When the victim arrived to pick up Valdivia, he noticed a bulge in Valdivia\u2019s pocket, the report says. Fearing for his life, he attempted to flee, but Valdivia approached the car, whipped out his firearm and pointed it at him.<\/p>\n

The victim started to drive toward 71st Street, and Valdivia ran after him and fired his gun multiple times, hitting the rear window of the car, according to the report. It\u2019s unclear if the victim was struck by any of the bullets.<\/p>\n

When interviewed by police, the victim said Valdivia\u2019s recent behavior has been alarming \u2014 and Valdivia told him \u201cthey are out there looking for us,\u201d according to the report. The victim said he doesn\u2019t usually carry his firearm on him but did because he was on edge due to Valdivia\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

The report doesn\u2019t mention whether the victim fired his weapon.<\/p>\n

Following the shooting, Valdivia was detained at the apartment. Officers found Taurus .9 mm handgun \u2014 with a round inside the chamber \u2014 in Valdivia\u2019s pocket, the report states. They also located an unloaded firearm in Valdivia\u2019s bookbag.<\/p>\n


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Grethel Aguila<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Grethel covers courts and the criminal justice system for the Miami Herald. She graduated from the University of Florida (Go Gators!), speaks Spanish and Arabic and loves animals, traveling, basketball and good storytelling. Grethel also attends law school part time.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami Beach man is behind bars after, police say, he chased his fleeing roommate and shot at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-413074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413074","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=413074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}