The Miami-Dade Police Department is now taking over the case of a fatal police-involved shooting in Homestead. Police sources told NBC 6 they believe in the end, the officer will be cleared.
The family of the man who died was at the medical examiner's office Friday afternoon. This after their loved one was shot in Homestead Thursday.
Reportedly, the officer involved has been involved in shootings before but was cleared and is described as a veteran who does it by the book.
Homestead Officer Anthony Green is now at the center of the investigation underway by Miami-Dade Police into what exactly happened when Green and Edward Foster, 35, crossed paths.
Cellphone video captured what it looked like in Homestead shortly after police said Officer Green shot Foster. Foster died a few minutes after he was rushed from the scene.
Sources told NBC 6 that Green was responding to one or more calls to 911 about a man walking or running with a weapon, and that Green was well within the rules when he discharged his weapon striking Foster.
It was back in 2007 when Green was reportedly involved in another shooting where he was cleared for his actions.
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In this shooting, police said a man had been attacking a woman and child with a knife and refused to drop it when he was shot. He was reportedly cleared in a fatal 2005 shooting as well.
Foster's mother said she understood it would be a significant time before investigators completed their report concerning Green's actions with her son.
His family doesn't believe Foster was armed.
"They tried to say my brother had a gun but he didn't. He was coming home from work," said the victim's sister, Andrina Foster.
Homestead's mayor, last year in honoring Green as the officer of the month, called him the "best of the best." He's been on the Homestead Department more than 2 decades as a patrol and K-9 officer.
Standard procedure would be to place Officer Green on administrative duty while the investigation by Miami-Dade Police is underway.
NBC 6's check of court records shows that Foster three years ago entered a guilty plea to charges of attempted murder and armed robbery and probation officers had told the court he had violated the terms of his probation.
