Posted on Thu, Aug. 26, 2010
BY WALT MICHOT AND ANDREA TORRES
asherman@miamiherald.com
LILLY ECHEVERRIA/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Yaimarelys Roque, 23, identified her self as the best friend and neighbor of Lisset Perez, 15, who was murdered in Hialeah on Thursday morning.
A man reeling from a romantic heartbreak shot and killed his teenage ex-girlfriend and her mother before turning the gun on himself in Hialeah, police said.
Police identified the three dead as Adalberto Torres, the 21-year-old shooter, his ex- girlfriend, Lisset Perez, 15, and her mother, Vivian Albelo, 39, said Carl Zogby, a Hialeah police spokesman.
The couple had broken up a week ago.
The shooting happened about 6:20 a.m. outside the Water View Villa apartment complex at 495 W. 12th St.
Relatives, who nicknamed Perez "Chai," described Torres, nicknamed "Pacho," as very possessive.
"He was very jealous," said Yaimarelys Roque, 23, a neighbor who said she heard two shots while getting her kids ready for school. Even before finding out what happened, Roque said, her husband thought "Pacho was killing Chai."
Torres had lived with Perez and her mother for about two years before the break up, Zogby said.
"My aunt accepted the situation, so Chai wouldn't move away," said Yunerkis Aguilera, Perez's cousin. "My aunt did not want her to date him."
Roque said she saw Torres walking around the apartment complex Wednesday night. Hours later, a tarp covered the two bodies on the ground near a parked SUV in the parking lot outside the complex for most of the morning.
They "were shot in the parking lot as they were leaving for school," said Hialeah police spokesman Eddie Rodriguez.
Perez was a freshman at Westland Hialeah High School. She had just turned 15 on Tuesday.
She was "a gentle person, sweet and very pretty," said Aguilera.
Zogby said the couple did not have a record of domestic violence.
"He used to rough her up, but she never reported it," Zogby added.
Perez's relative, Mayelin Vizcaya, said Torres was very controling.
"He wouldn't let her talk to even my brother or my husband or my 2-year-old son," said Vizcaya.
Southeast of Hialeah, in an efficiency in Miami, Torres shot himself at 2721 SW 29th Court. He had only been living there for a couple of days. Police found his body about 9 a.m., said Napier Velazquez, a Miami police spokesman.
Torres, who was born in Havana, Cuba, did not have a criminal record in the United States.
"He was very respectful, he was very friendly, he was a great kid," said Alex Rosa, Torres' cousin.
Torres' friend Sandra Garcia agreed. "He was very reserved. He was a quiet kid," said Garcia. "He didn't drink, didn't smoke."
Standing near the yellow crime scene tape in Hialeah, Perez's Cuban grandmother Julia Diaz cried as she tried to comfort another granddaughter, Yalin Betancourt, who lost her mother and sister.
"The best thing that ever happened to her was to break up with him, but at the same time, it got her killed," said Vizcaya.
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