A grand jury in Orange County has formally indicted a man on a first-degree murder charge after his wife was fatally shot last month at a shopping plaza in Orlando.
On Monday, October 21, at around 1:15 p.m., the Orlando Police Department responded to a shopping center located in the 5800 block of Lake Underhill Road in Orlando in reference to a woman being shot, according to OPD.
When officers arrived on scene, they located a deceased female victim who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. She was identified by police as 44-year-old Yuneisy Labrada Rodriguez.
Witnesses at the shopping plaza told officers that a man, later identified as 54-year-old Armando Verdecia Carralero, had fled from the scene of the shooting in a vehicle. He was quickly identified by police as a suspect in the shooting death of his wife, Rodriguez.
OPD stated that an investigation revealed that Carralero and Rodriguez were “married but separated” at the time of the shooting. In addition, detectives determined that Carralero had driven to his wife’s place of employment, which is where he “confronted” her.
During that confrontation, Carralero allegedly shot his wife and then fled from the area. Later that day, hours after the shooting, he was located by law enforcement in Indian River County and taken into custody without further incident.
On Friday, November 22, the State Attorney’s Office for the Ninth Judicial Circuit announced that “sufficient evidence” had been presented to a grand jury two days earlier, securing an indictment against Carralero for first-degree murder (with a firearm).
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Carralero is currently being held without bond at Orange County Jail. A court date has not been scheduled yet, according to jail records.