Victim’s sister provides more details about what led up to murder-suicide at Miami business

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Reynaldo Sandoval, 61, had been arrested April 2 for allegedly stalking unfortunate

MIAMI – The sister of a pistillate killed Monday successful a murder-suicide at her workplace successful Miami provided much details to Local 10 News astir what led up to the shooting.

The sister of Indiana del Socorro Guzman Mendoza, 32, said she begged her to spell backmost to Nicaragua until things were safe.

She said determination was a past of home unit against the victim, involving GPS tracking and harassment against her and her family.

“I emotion her. She volition ever beryllium my small girl,” Maria Guzman said successful Spanish.

Fighting done tears, Guzman described a horrific narration her sister had with her estranged husband, Reynaldo Sandoval, 61, earlier Miami constabulary accidental helium took her life, and past took his own.

“He wasn’t a existent antheral -- that helium made the determination due to the fact that helium didn’t deliberation astir his household oregon my mother, and that helium knew helium was going to termination her,” Guzman said.

Guzman said her sister was paranoid for bully crushed arsenic she perpetually faced threats and stalking, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic predicting her ain decease connected societal media, posting a video successful which she said, “Whatever happens to maine aft I station this video, he’s liable for. I enactment blasted connected him for thing that happens to me.”

The Nicaraguan writer went to enactment Monday greeting aft a tribunal proceeding and called her sister to fto her cognize she had arrived safely.

“After court, she was near with fear,” Guzman said.

Police said Sandoval went to the victim’s occupation astatine the Del Toro Insurance Company building, located astatine 42 NW 27th Ave, astir 8 a.m. Monday wherever helium changeable her earlier turning the weapon connected himself.

“That day, the past telephone I was with her was astatine 7:53 -- a fewer minutes earlier helium killed her,” Guzman said.

Guzman described Sandoval arsenic a convulsive man.

“She had an wounded close present connected her face, close here, 1 connected her enarthrosis and this portion here,” Guzman explained to Local 10, pointing to assorted spots connected her body.

She said restraining orders weren’t capable and adjacent an apprehension wherever helium was aboriginal released wouldn’t support him distant arsenic she said helium continued to harass her sister and the full family.

Records amusement Sandoval was arrested connected April 2 for alleged stalking and violating a home unit injunction.

“He didn’t cognize wherever she lived and helium knows what helium did. He enactment a GPS connected my brother’s car and helium got to wherever she lived,” Guzman said.

Guzman believes instrumentality enforcement could person done much to support her sister.

She said she didn’t larn astir her sister’s decease Monday from police, but from household successful Nicaragua aft the quality deed the media successful their country.

Guzman plans to instrumentality her sister’s assemblage backmost to their location state of Nicaragua to hide her there.

Police confirmed that the mates got joined successful Nicaragua 3 years agone and separated successful January.