{"id":429786,"date":"2026-10-16T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429786\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:44:50","slug":"miami-officers-wont-face-charges-in-2025-shooting-that-killed-gunman-and-bystander-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429786\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami officers won\u2019t face charges in 2025 shooting that killed gunman and bystander \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Miami Police officers involved in a shooting in Wynwood last year<\/a> that killed a gunman and an innocent bystander won’t be charged, records showed.<\/p>\n

A memo released this week by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said the officers’ use of deadly force in the June 14, 2025 shooting was legally justified.<\/p>\n

The shooting killed the gunman, Norman Lindo Jr., and 28-year-old Evelyn Vald\u00e9s, an innocent bystander who was struck by a bullet while in a car nearby.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Evelyn<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tFamily PhotoFamily Photo<\/p>\n

Evelyn Valdes<\/p>\n

According to the memo, Sergeants Jose Cabrera and Javier Herbello and Officer Dorian Acosta were outside the Electric Lady nightclub when they encountered Lindo, who’d been involved in an altercation and was armed.<\/p>\n

Lindo was ordered to drop his weapon but when he didn’t comply, the sergeants and officer opened fire, hitting him several times.<\/p>\n

He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.<\/p>\n

Valdes, who was out celebrating her birthday, was the rear passenger in a vehicle that was leaving the area when she was struck. She was also taken to a local hospital but died from her injuries.<\/p>\n

The club’s manager was also struck and taken to a hospital but survived.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video obtained by NBC6 showed the altercation outside the club and showed police opening fire.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA woman was killed in June when she was struck by gunfire during a police-involved shooting in Wynwood, and now her family is demanding answers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

“In this ease, based on the totality of the circumstances, the officers’ use of deadly force was justified, as the evidence shows that Lindo Jr. was aggressively brandishing a firearm in a crowded street,” the memo said. “It was reasonable for the officers to believe that their lives or others were in danger. It was also reasonable for the officers to believe that deadly force was necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to themselves, patrons of the nightclub, and pedestrians in the area.”<\/p>\n

Valdes’ mother filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the officers and the city alleging excessive force, wrongful death and negligence.<\/p>\n

Two of the three officers returned to full duty two weeks after the shooting. The third officer was administratively re-assigned to the real time crime center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Miami Police officers involved in a shooting in Wynwood last year that killed a gunman and an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,123],"class_list":["post-429786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429786","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=429786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}