MIAMI — Newly released body camera footage from a 2024 deadly police shooting shows the moment officers pulled the trigger.
It happened on June 25 of last year in a home off Northeast 25th Street in Miami.
According to Miami police, a man called 911 to report his roommate, a woman identified as Mariel Rivera Samuel, was charging him with a kitchen knife.
The man says the two don’t know one another but were renting rooms through AirBnb at the home.
When officers spoke to Samuel, she said her roommate tampered with her drink, implying that he urinated in her apple juice, according to the footage.
Officers said they were going to take Samuel to a mental health facility for a Baker Act, but she came at them with a knife.
A State Attorney’s Office close out memo said, “Rivera-Samuel came within inches of stabbing or cutting Officer Burgos.”
Police say it was then they were forced to fire.
“According to that close out memo, the State Attorney’s Office determined the shooting was legally justified,” said Miami Police Chief Manny Morales.
The SAO said the case is officially closed.
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