He shot his ex-wife in the chest and retreated to his apartment with the gun. Three deputies had to go up and take him. Here’s how it went down — and why it was justified.
West Miami-Dade. August 26, 2025. A little before 4 in the afternoon.
A man named Javier Albriza Jara, 50, shot his ex-wife in the chest. Her name was Yudaisy Salgueiro. She was 46. They’d been married about a decade and had separated within the past year.
She got away from him and made it to a neighbor’s unit. He stayed armed and, by accounts, kept firing in the building before going back up to his own fourth-floor apartment. She was carried out on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. Six days recovering. But she lived.
That’s the situation three Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies walked into. Not a traffic stop. Not a call that went sideways. A known armed shooter, up high, barricaded, with a victim already bleeding on the property.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated. The State Attorney’s Office released its findings roughly eleven months later. So let’s look at what the bodycam actually shows.
The call.
Listen to the 911 audio. The caller is screaming — reporting shots inside the building, over and over. When a call comes in that raw, that panicked, it’s legit every time. There’s no wondering. Dispatch knows. The deputies rolling to it know. You’re not driving to a maybe. You’re driving to a man who’s already pulled the trigger once.
The approach.
Here’s where it gets hard.
The suspect is on the fourth floor. Open-air walkway. On one side you’ve got a railing and a four-story drop — that’s your “cover.” On the other side you’ve got apartment windows. One of them is right next to the door they need to reach. The door is open. The armed man is inside.
Think about that layout. There is nowhere good to be. You can’t stack on the wall the way you’d want to, because that window turns the wall into glass. You can’t sit still, because sitting still next to an armed suspect’s window gets you killed. You have to move, and you have to start clearing that apartment with your eyes the second you’re moving.
Watch the deputy cross. He peeks the door as he goes and picks up the suspect. It worked. If I’m coaching it, I’d have taken that crossing a hair slower — but he was safe about it, he got his eyes where they needed to be, and it came out right. Another deputy holds that window clean the whole time. That’s good work under bad conditions.
The shooting.
Now watch the suspect. He’s loading. He’s manipulating the weapon and bringing it toward the deputies.
Let me be clear about something, because people get confused watching these. You do not have to wait for a man to finish loading his gun so he can shoot you first. When an armed suspect — one who just put a round in his ex-wife’s chest — is running his weapon and turning it on you, the threat is right now. Not after the next round chambers. Now.
It looks like he had malfunctions. Fumbling the gun, weapon not going into battery. That’s his problem, not the deputies’. A malfunctioning gun in the hands of a man trying to kill you is still a man trying to kill you.
Three deputies fired. He was hit and killed.
The verdict.
Is there a question whether this was justified? No.
A man shoots his ex-wife in the chest. He retreats, armed. Deputies find him, order him to drop it, and he raises the weapon at them instead. That’s a good shooting. Clean. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated it, the State Attorney’s Office reviewed it, and the case is closed.
These deputies took on one of the worst tactical problems you can hand a patrol unit — an armed, committed suspect, up high, in a hallway full of windows with no cover — and they solved it. The woman he shot is alive. The man who shot her can’t hurt her, or anyone else, again.
That’s the job. Some days it looks exactly like this.
