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MIAMI ... The shooting happened Tuesday night when officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department and FBI agents knocked on the door of a home in a quiet South Florida neighborhood.
Officers say a man in a car parked near the house started shooting as the investigators knocked on the door ...
Detective Roy Rutland says the officer was resting after surgery with his family nearby. The name of the dead suspect has not been released. Another suspect is in police custody ...
http://www.marconews.com/news/2012/aug/01/man-killed-officer-shot-outside-grow-house-south-f/
Officer stable after shooting; 1 suspect dead
... Undercover Miami-Dade police officer John Saavedra, 34, is now in stable condition following surgery. However, residents living in the Southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood where the shooting happened, around 7 p.m. Tuesday, have been left on edge, their sense of security shattered, a day after the shooting. "Unfortunately, our officer was shot, but it could have easily been the boy next door playing in his front yard," said Miami-Dade Police Lt. Rosanna Cordero-Stutz at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
According to police, they had the home where the shooting occurred, at Southwest 60th Avenue and 23rd Street, under surveillance for several days. The shooting occurred after police went out to investigate a tip regarding narcotics activity at the house. "The individual who was eventually identified as Luis Lazaro Estevanell began to flee back into the home," said Cordero-Stutz. "At the same time that this is occurring, a short distance away, there is a white BMW."
Police said Gerardo Delgado Sr., 56, was in that car and fired at the officers outside the house. Miami-Dade police officer John Saavedra, 34, was shot three times. Police returned fire, killing Delgado ...
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21008153893524/officer-stable-after-shooting-1-suspect-dead/