Officer Yandy Chirino

Officer Yandy Chirino (Hollywood Police Department)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A justice connected Tuesday greeting ordered an 18-year-old antheral to beryllium held without enslaved successful the fatal shooting of a South Florida constabulary officer.

Judge Tabitha Blackmon besides ordered Jason Banegas to acquisition a intelligence wellness screening astatine the petition of his nationalist defender. Banegas, who had been released connected juvenile probation a fewer weeks ago, kept his caput down during overmuch of his archetypal quality proceeding connected Tuesday.

Banegas is accused of shooting Hollywood constabulary Officer Yandy Chirino, 28, successful the look connected Sunday nighttime during an altercation that followed a suspicious incidental telephone successful a vicinity adjacent the Emerald Hills Country Club, Hollywood constabulary Chief Chris O’Brien said.

Chirino was taken to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died. Banegas was detained astatine the country and taken into custody that night, O'Brien said.

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Court records amusement that Banegas had been released from the Miami-Dade County jailhouse past month, and faced burglary, trespassing and possession of cocaine charges. He is presently being held successful the Broward County Jail connected aggregate charges including premeditated felony murder, resisting an serviceman with violence, equipped burglary and expansive theft of a firearm.

Jason Banegas is accused of fatally shooting Hollywood constabulary Officer Yandy Chirino connected Oct. 17, 2021. (Broward Sheriff's Office)

Officers were called to the vicinity aft residents spotted a young antheral riding a motorcycle and checking doorway handles of vehicles successful driveways connected Sunday night.

Chirino had been with the section for 4 years and was named serviceman of the period successful June 2020.

“He was a large serviceman and volition person a lasting interaction connected our community,” the constabulary main said during a Monday quality conference, adding that Chirino “gave his beingness honorably and without hesitation.”

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