Family’s attorney says father would still be alive if Broward deputies had seized woman’s guns

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LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. – There haven’t been immoderate arrests successful the decease of Bernabe “Kiko” Rodriguez, a begetter who worked arsenic a barber and died successful February successful Lighthouse Point. He was 41.

Attorney William DiPetrillo, who represents Rodriguez’s grieving family, said the fatal home shooting could person been prevented. Rodriguez’s lad wants justice.

“The strategy successful this case, I judge failed this idiosyncratic horribly aft helium was changeable to decease aft filing a petition,” DiPetrillo said referring to Rodriguez’s petition for a restraining bid against his ex-girlfriend Shelbie Hawk.

DiPetrillo said the petition alleging she had held him astatine gunpoint was filed successful tribunal 28 days earlier Hawk fatally changeable Rodriguez with a Glock.

“This had 5 equipped felonies described successful it,“ DiPetrillo said.

The injunction filed successful Palm Beach County and served by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office listed Hawk arsenic owning 3 guns.

“If the Sheriff had work the petition that she had 3 occurrence arms, helium should person insisted she surrender the firearms,” DiPetrillo said.

Hawk did not respond to requests for comment. Neither detectives nor prosecutors, person accused her of a transgression aft the fatal shooting.

BSO did not remark due to the fact that of a argumentation that applies to cases with imaginable litigation.