Police shot and killed an armed suspect at a Hialeah home Wednesday morning where three people were found stabbed including one victim who died from her injuries, officials said.
Hialeah Police officials said the incident began when they received a call for a domestic disturbance at a home on West 42nd Place and West 5th Court at around 4:25 a.m.
As officers arrived, they were met by one victim, who appeared to be stabbed outside of the home, police said.
Inside the home there were two more stabbing victims and an armed suspect, according to authorities.
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Officers were rendering aid when there was a "confrontation" between them and the suspect, and they opened fire.
Video captured by NBC6 showed the moment officers fired several shots from the door of the residence.
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The suspect and one of the stabbing victims died at the scene, police said. Two more victims were taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
The three people who were stabbed were a mother, daughter and grandmother, and one of the victims is 17 years old, Hialeah Police confirmed.
Police have not released the identities of anyone involved but family friends identified them as Madeleyne Gonzalez, Rosa Gonzalez, and 17-year-old Amanda Gonzalez.
The identity of the attacker and his relationship to the women has not been confirmed. A family friend said a 30-year-old man lived at the home with the women and had mental health issues, but police have not specified if this is the man who stabbed the women.
"It's been a real tragedy. He has had a nervous condition for a long time," a neighbor said in Spanish about one of the people who appeared to have been involved. "Before there were many problems, but he had been calm for a while."
Gilberto Rodriguez, visibly emotional, said he is a family friend of the victims, who he identified as a woman along with her mother and daughter.
"[They are] the best family for us," he said. "I'm so sad... All the friends and families trying to see how we can help the family, but the truth is right now, we're shocked."
According to the president of a South Florida police union, two officers were involved in the shooting of the man who stabbed the women. The South Florida PBA is representing one of those officers.
"These things happen in split seconds. But there's body cameras, there was a lot of verbal commands to drop the knife. He did not want to. And when you charge officers with a knife there's no other outcome that could have taken place than what took place," Steadman Stahl said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will be investigating the incident, which is standard practice in police shootings.
The investigation continues.
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