Florida Shooting: 7 Dead In Hialeah Apartment Shootout, Including Gunman

[Judi Lynn]

70. A look at the victims in the Hialeah killings

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Pedro Alberto Vargas, gunman [/center]

A look at the victims in the Hialeah killings
By Patricia Mazzei
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Six neighbors did routine, mundane things Friday evening in Hialeah. A father parked his car after his son’s boxing practice. A family hung out inside their apartment. A husband and wife, both building managers, knocked on a tenant’s door.

At some point, the tenant pulled out a 9mm pistol.

By the end of the night, the six neighbors were dead. So was the gunman, identified by Hialeah Police as Pedro Alberto Vargas, 42, killed by a SWAT team that stormed the apartment where for hours he kept two more neighbors hostage.

These are the victims’ stories.

Samira and Italo Pisciotti

The first to die were Italo and Samira Pisciotti, the husband and wife who managed the building at 1485 W 46th St. where Vargas and his mother, Esperanza Patterson, were tenants of apartment 408.

After an apparent dispute, Vargas fired about 15 to 20 shots, killing 78-year-old Italo and 68-year-old Samira.

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