Police killings
2013-2020

Pedro Alberto Vargas

Male, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 7/27/2013

Hialeah, Miami-Dade, FL
1485 West 46th Street

Pedro Alberto Vargas fatally shot six people inside his Hialeah apartment complex and then took two people hostage for about three hours. After negotiations reportedly broke down, a SWAT team entered the building and fatally shot Vargas after a brief shootout; the two hostages escaped unharmed.