MIAMI — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses the city of Miami, two Miami police officers, a security company and a Wynwood nightclub of negligence and excessive force in the 2025 fatal shooting of 28-year-old Evelyn Valdes.
Valdes was described in the lawsuit as an “innocent bystander” who was celebrating her birthday when she was struck by police gunfire last year.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by Valdes’ mother, Kristy Dee Garcia, alleges that Miami Police Department Sgt. Javier Herbello and MPD Officer Dorian Acosta “opened fire without warning” during an altercation outside the Electric Lady nightclub in Wynwood on June 14, 2025, killing Valdes as she sat in the back seat of an SUV…