A man is in custody after police said he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her mother in a condominium building in Miami Wednesday morning.
The shooting happened just after 9 a.m. at the Yolanda Villas Condominium at 801 Northwest 47th Avenue in the Flagami area.
Miami Police officials said 22-year-old Isbelsy Olivera and her mother, 50-year-old Irisbel Cartalla, were found shot to death inside a unit in the building.
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Police said a man who is Olivera's ex-boyfriend somehow made his way into the building and ambushed the women.
"What we can confirm is that the suspect somehow was able to ambush both that mother and daughter and they were found deceased inside of their apartment building complex," Miami Police spokesperson Kiara Delva said.
A neighbor said the mother and daughter share a unit on an upper floor and the mother provides cleaning services for the condo complex. The daughter does manicures out of their unit, the neighbor said.
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"They are very nice, hard working women, it’s a shame that this unfortunately had occurred," Jacqueline Granda said. "I wish the family all of the best."
One woman who lives in the building said she heard the daughter’s ex-boyfriend waited for a client to leave the unit then ran in and shot the two women before leaving.
The man later turned himself in to West Miami Police and confessed to the crime, officials said. His identity hasn't been released but Miami Police took him into custody.
Neighbors and friends identified the suspect as 48-year-old Carlos Travieso. Police have not officially identified him as the suspect, but Travieso is seen in several pictures on the victim's social media pages. Jail records show he's facing two counts of first-degree murder.
There’s a security associate at the front gate so the suspect would’ve had to have breached that security point before he went upstairs.
"The investigation is ongoing, there's still a lot of moving components, circumstances surrounding what led up to the shooting is under investigation," Delva said. "The circumstances surrounding what led up to the suspect being able to gain access to the apartment complex is still under investigation as well, so there are still a lot of moving components to this investigation as far as how he gained access into the building."
No other information was immediately known.
