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One of The Deadliest Shootouts in Miami History - July 27 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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SUMMER MERCH IS OUT NOW!  https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/  Our New Website: https://morningcupofmurder.com/ July 27th: Pedro Alberto Vargas killed by SWAT (2013) When things seem to go wrong at every turn it’s easy to think the world is against you. On July 27th 2013 a man who felt the world crashing down around him broke down and committed one of the worst mass shootings Miami, Florida has ever seen.  Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/florida-shooting/index.html, https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/florida-police-shootings/database/928/, nbcmiami.com/news/local/active-shooter-scene-in-hialeah-authorities/1897998/, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/07/pedro-alberto-vargas-florida-gunman-kills-six-people.html, https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-gunman-fla-apartment-complex-shooting-ready-fight/story?id=19790697, https://murderpedia.org/male.V/v/vargas-pedro-alberto.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Hialeah_shooting   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird hummus.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

When things seem to go wrong at every turn, it's easy to think that the world is against

0:19.7

you.

0:20.7

On July 27, 2013, a man who felt the

0:24.3

world crashing down around him broke down and committed one of the worst mass shootings

0:29.0

Miami, Florida, has ever seen. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

0:35.8

sit back and start your day with a morning

0:37.8

cup of murder. Police in Miami-Dade County, Florida received a call at 137 p.m. on July 26,

0:47.6

2013 from a man named Pedro Alberto Vargas. Pedro, 42 years old, was convinced that he was being followed and asked the

0:57.1

dispatcher if they could run the plates of a suspicious car he found parked outside the Tudel apartments

1:02.4

where he lived. As the conversation continued, Pedro claimed that he was being threatened by people

1:07.9

using witchcraft. It's unclear if the call was taken seriously, but at some point, Pedro's 82-year-old mother, Esperanza Patterson, took the phone and told the dispatcher about her son's increasingly strange behavior.

1:21.6

Whatever was said on the phone call was enough to send the police unit to the apartment, but Esperanza advised against it and, later, told the dispatcher that her son had left to go to his lawyer's office.

1:33.2

Well, this could have been nothing but a strange phone call, with hours passing without incident,

1:38.4

at 6.30 p.m. Pedro Alberto Vargas laid out $10,000 in cash, poured an accelerant on top, and then set the money ablaze inside of his apartment.

1:49.6

With smoke billowing out of his room, the complex's manager, 79-year-old Italo Piscuati, and his 69-year-old wife, Samira, noticed the smoke and ran over to see what was happening.

2:02.7

When they did, Pedro stepped out into the hallway, Glock 17 in hand, and began shooting off his semi-automatic pistol. With the

2:09.8

Piscuades both lying dead on the floor, Pedro went back inside of his apartment and went out onto

2:15.0

the balcony of his fourth floor apartment, where he fired off

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