Friday, an adult jailed a teenage boy who was in foster care on charges of trying to kill the person who allegedly attacked his biological mother in deep south Miami-Dade County.
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A police report says Guadalupe Miranda told them that her daughter and son were angry and wanted to get back at the person who beat her and left her with bruises.
Police say that on September 28, Miranda, 36, drove up to The Park Motel at 600 S. Krome Ave. in Homestead in a pickup truck with her two kids and her son’s girlfriend.
Homestead police were told by witnesses that the gunman on the surveillance video was Miranda’s 16-year-old son Leonel Zapet. Zapet shot the alleged attacker in the abdomen and then ran away.
On September 29, police in Homestead went to a foster home to arrest Zapet, who had a record for a crime he committed as a juvenile.
At the same time, police say the victim’s condition was very bad after being flown from Baptist Health Homestead Hospital to Jackson South Medical Center.
Prosecutors brought a case against Zapet, who turned 17 on November 1, in Miami-Dade adult court on Wednesday, according to court records.
According to his prison records, he was booked into an adult jail after the transfer on Thursday. In jail on Friday, he was at the Metrowest Detention Center.
Zaret is charged with two felonies as an adult: second-degree attempted murder and having a gun while a convicted felon.
His court date is Nov. 18 at 9 a.m., in front of Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Hersch.
