A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy who was shot when he responded to a traffic crash in the southwest area of the county on Friday afternoon died at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.
Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, during a news conference at the hospital, said that while Deputy Devin Jaramillo, 27, responded to the accident, “he was brutally attacked, and he was murdered.”
Cordero-Stutz barely held back tears as she delivered the grim news of Jaramillo’s passing in front of several high-ranking sheriff’s officials, some of whom were crying.
“He’s not only a deputy. He’s a son, a brother and a friend,” she said. “He gave the ultimate sacrifice, his life, defending you, and we need to understand as a community that this is just unacceptable.”…