Barricaded 82-Year-Old Killed in Police Shootout

PINECREST, FL — Before barricading himself in his home on Friday night, 82-year-old Theodore Brendecke told his wife that he wanted to get into a shootout with police. The octogenarian had been drinking. He got his wish shortly before 11 p.m. and it was his last.

"The female advised that her husband had been drinking and barricaded himself in a bedroom," explained Detective Argemis Colome of the Miami-Dade Police Department. "The wife also communicated that her husband was armed with a firearm and expressed to her that he was going to have a shootout with the police tonight." (Sign up for our free Daily Newsletters and Breaking News Alerts for the Pinecrest Patch.)

Police escorted Brendecke's wife and adult son away from the home in the 12000 block of SW 82nd Avenue and called in the Miami-Dade Police Department's Special Response Team.

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"Once SRT and negotiators arrived, they attempted to make contact with the barricaded male, shots were fired, and he was struck," Colome said. "The male was transported to Jackson South Hospital by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, where he was determined deceased."

Police did not release the name of the officer who fired at Brendecke but said that the officer is a 17-year veteran of the police department assigned to the Special Response Team.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been called in to investigate the police shooting in accordance with departmental policy.