Video shows armored trucks outside Palmetto Estates home amid shooting investigation

Deputies shot and killed a person and arrested a man as they were serving a search warrant in an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigation at a home in Southwest Miami-Dade on Tuesday.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Rosie Cordero-Stutz said deputies arrived to the house on Southwest 155th Street and Southwest 102nd Court in Palmetto Estates to serve the warrant in the year-long investigation into child phonography and sexual abuse. She said the victims “ranged from the ages of infancy to 6 years of age.”

When they arrived, deputies made contact with two adults and a child at the door, and the three of them were safely removed from the property.

Then, an armed person came to the door and “confronted” authorities, the sheriff said. Cordero-Stutz said that subject “failed to obey the orders to drop the weapon,” and deputies opened fired. They rendered aid at the scene, but the subject did not survive.

A second subject, a man, was removed from the home and is in custody. He is the one wanted in the search warrant, Cordero-Stutz said.

The identities of either suspect were not immediately released.

No deputies were hurt in the shooting.

Video shows a large law enforcement presence in the area, which is just south of Coral Reef Drive (Southwest 152nd Street). At least two armored trucks belonging to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office’s Special Response Team and several deputies could be seen in the area of a cul-de-sac.

“It’s very important to share with you that ICAC search warrants are the most dangerous warrants historically in law enforcement that we can serve,” Cordero-Stutz said.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the gunfire, as is protocol in law enforcement shootings.