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2013 Hialeah shooting
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This article is about the mass shooting at an apartment complex. For the mass shooting outside a banquet hall, see 2021 Hialeah shooting.
On July 26, 2013, a mass shooting occurred at the Todel Apartments, an American apartment complex in Hialeah, a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Seven people, including the shooter, were killed in the incident. The shooter was identified by police as 42-year-old Pedro Alberto Vargas, a resident of Hialeah, who, after setting his apartment ablaze, opened fire from his balcony and inside the apartment, then held two people hostage before being fatally shot by a SWAT team in the early hours of July 27.
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Location | 1485 West 46th Street, Hialeah, Florida, U.S. |
Coordinates | 25.86428°N 80.3109°W / 25.86428; -80.3109 |
Date | July 26–27, 2013 c. 6:30 p.m. – c. 2:30 a.m. |
Attack type | Mass murder, massacre, arson, shootout, mass shooting |
Weapons | Glock 17 Gen 4 semi-automatic pistol[1] |
Deaths | 7 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | Pedro Alberto Vargas |
Motive | Unknown[2] |
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