The flag-draped coffin of Cesar Echaverry, the Miami-Dade robbery detective who died from injuries in a shootout with an armed robbery suspect, left Jackson Memorial Hospital in a short but moving ceremony on Friday. The street was lined with fellow officers, who saluted as his coffin passed, along with family and friends.
Echaverry, 29, was shot in the head Monday night after a brief chase of a Georgia man suspected of robbing a Broward County convenience store. Fellow officers quickly rushed Echaverry to the hospital in an unmarked vehicle.
He was kept alive for two days on a ventilator. His family agreed to remove the life support Wednesday night. He was born in Hialeah and attended John A. Ferguson Senior High School. Charles Rabin. August 19, at PM. Echaverry was shot in the head in a shootout with an armed robbery suspect Monday night. He died Wednesday night when doctors removed the ventilator that had been keeping him alive in Miami. Echaverry succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the head in a shootout with an armed robbery suspect.
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