An estranged husband angered because his wife was changing the lock of her apartment shot and killed her Tuesday, chased and wounded a man, then committed suicide in the street while running from police.
The violence left the couple’s five-year-old son an orphan and Miami-Dade and Sweetwater police with three different crime scenes across southwest Miami-Dade — on Flagler Street, Coral Way and Bird Road.
The tragedy unfolded Tuesday morning when relatives and friends said a violent physical confrontation with her estranged husband of several month prompted Laira Quintanilla Gonzalez, 28, to call Sweetwater police and a locksmith to her apartment .
At around 2 p.m., her ex, Miguel Trujillo Garcia, returned to the apartment at 11388 West Flagler St. to see the workman. He argued with his wife, pulled out a gun and shot her several times in the chest. Quintanilla died at the scene.
Trujillo fled and continued his rampage, with a high speed chase of a man identified as Osbel Cabrera, 28. Police would not say why he targeted Cabrera, but Trujillo slammed his car into Cabrera’s at Bird Road and Southwest 127th Avenue. He jumped out and shot Cabrera, who was airlifted to the Ryder Trauma Center.
His condition is unknown. Relatives of Cabrera said he was romantically involved with Quintanilla.
As he fled that scene, Trujillo slammed into a woman’s car but kept going. Police finally caught up to him on Coral Way and 109th Avenue, where Trujillo turned the gun on himself. He died hours later.
Tuesday relatives were trying to make sense of the tragedy.
“I told my nephew to end this relationship, that it wasn’t good for him,’’ said Cabrera’s aunt Nora Cabrera. “I warned him it would end in tragedy.”
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