MIAMI – Richard Hollis was holding two kitchen knives. He shouted his food was poisoned. Officer Jaime Pino stormed into an apartment, saw the 21-year-old man near his mother, Gamaly Argentina Hollis, and fired his stun gun and his firearm.
That’s how records describe the fatal police-involved shooting on June 15, 2022, at the Pepper Mill Apartments at Kendale Lakes, in western Miami-Dade County. But there is more to the story.
The shooting continues to haunt the grieving mother who had been accused of child abuse in 2017. Records show prosecutors have filed three new cases against her since the shooting.
Gamaly Hollis has a pending Sept. 20, 2022 case for three misdemeanor charges of stalking, resisting an officer without violence, and violation of an injunction. The Miami Herald reported on Friday night corrections released her on April 19 on a $1,000 bond after a year in jail — where the prosecutors want her back over her Facebook posts.
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Attorney Natahly Soler, a Miami-Dade public defender who represents the grieving mother, told The Miami Herald she had a First Amendment right to her Facebook posts about the news that was public.
On Saturday, The Miami Herald published a police-cam video that is relevant to the pending case showing Gamaly Hollis confronting Pino: “You killed my son!”
Court records show prosecutors had filed a battery case against her son in 2019 and three cases in 2021. Two were for battery and one for resisting arrest. He suffered from a mental illness.
Court records also show that after the fatal police-involved shooting, the mother filed lawsuits against Miami-Dade County and The Department of Legal Affairs Bureau of Victim Compensation.
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MIAMI — Police said they have arrested a man in connection to a hit-and-run that left a 67-year-old woman dead on Sunday morning.
The Miami-Dade Police Department’s Traffic Homicide Unit announced on Thursday that they have arrested and charged 70-year-old Earl Williams Taylor with leaving the scene of a crash resulting in the death of Madette Roche Laurent.
According to investigators, a maroon Jeep Liberty driven by Taylor was traveling south around 5:25 a.m. on Northeast 6th Avenue and approaching 149th Street. Meanwhile, Laurent was crossing 149th Street from east to west when she was struck by Taylor’s car.
Police said Taylor did not stop, render aid, or call 911 when the incident happened.
Through investigative means with the assistance of an anonymous CrimeStopper tip, detectives were able to find Taylor and locate his car, which allegedly had “extensive front-end damage.”
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Hunter Geisel
Hunter Geisel is a digital producer at CBS News Miami. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to politics and pop culture.
David Long Jr. is heading into his second season with the Miami Dolphins with a new defensive coordinator but the same mentality.
The 5-foot-11 linebacker has always seen himself as an underdog since he was taken in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL draft.
Now, the former West Virginia Mountaineer is a contract year.
“[The motivation] is the same,” Long said this week during a Zoom media session. “It hasn’t dropped off, it hasn’t gotten better. It’s the same. But I don’t look at it as that. Over the years I’ve grown … so I don’t really worry too much. I come to work every day.”
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Long wears a tattoo on his neck that he considers his motto.
“‘Que sera, sera’ … It means, ‘what will be, will be,’” Long said. “That’s what I believe in, so that’s how I attack every day.”
Long will go into the 2024 season attacking every day with his new defensive coordinator, Anthony Weaver. Weaver was hired in February from the Baltimore Ravens.
Last season, Weaver helped lead a Ravens defense that reached the top of the league in scoring defense with 16.5 points allowed per game.
It is still early, but Long likes where the team currently is.
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“We’re on like, phase (two of the offseason program],” Long said. “But right now, everybody is clicking, I would say, and it starts off the field as well. How tight is the team, how good can we communicate, and how fast we can take the classroom to the field. Everyday it’s getting better, and I’m sure it will continuously get better throughout the OTAs, phase three and going into minicamp.”
As Long enters his contract year, he is confident in the changes around him — including whoever winds up replacing his linebacker partner after the departure of Jerome Baker, which is expected to be Jordyn Brooks.
“Of course I had a lot of fun playing with [Baker], but the good thing about the league is there is a lot of good guys in the league,” Long said. “I feel like [Jordyn Brooks] came in, [Anthony Walker] came in and fit right in … As far as play style, [we] haven’t gotten the pads on yet, but as far as how we fit into the defense it’s feeling good right now. Everybody is clicking and learning every day.”
