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Aug. 27, 2013 — Oakland Park

Just after midnight, a fugitive task force closed in on a black pickup in the parking lot of a Days Inn motel.

Broward SO Fort Lauderdale PD

Officers were hunting for Henry Kiner, 27, a murder suspect. Kiner, however, was not in the truck. He was on the second-floor balcony, outside Room 212, with a shotgun.

Kiner, dressed in camouflage fatigues, fired at officers and deputies below. They returned fire, hitting him approximately 31 times and killing him. Read more

Daniel Forrest, a 21-year-old guest sleeping in the room next door was wounded in the arm and several other guests dove for cover. One deputy injured his arm also diving for cover.

Kiner had spent four years in prison on burglary charges and had recently told his mother he would never go back to prison.

The task force was comprised of six Broward sheriff's deputies -- Sgt. Christopher Hickox, detectives Richard Saito, Juan Mantilla-Riveira, Brenden Hays, Gerardo Lopez and Andrew Cardarelli -- Fort Lauderdale police Det. Jack DiCristofalo and members of the U.S. Marshal's Service.

This was the 90th police shooting in Florida in 2013.

The same day, two officers shot one person in Seffner .

Six days later, three officers shot one person in St. Petersburg .

8 ways this case compares to others

  1. Det. Cardarelli was involved in one other shooting from 2009 to 2014. Eighty-five officers were involved in more than one shooting during that time period.
  2. Det. Hays was involved in one other shooting from 2009 to 2014. Eighty-five officers were involved in more than one shooting during that time period.
  3. Det. Lopez was involved in two other shootings from 2009 to 2014. Only 10 officers were involved in more than two shootings in that time period.
  4. Det. Saito was involved in one other shooting from 2009 to 2014. Eighty-five officers were involved in more than one shooting during that time period.
  5. Kiner fired shots at police, which happened in 15 percent of shootings.
  6. Forrest was one of 18 innocent bystanders shot by police. Some of them were hostages.
  7. Kiner was one of 25 people who were shot after telling someone that he wouldn't go to jail or back to prison.
  8. Kiner was armed with a firearm. That’s true of almost half the people shot.

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