The 16-year-old kid, who is now facing adult charges for the deadly shooting of his ex-girlfriend’s mother, was sent to the Metro West Detention Center on Monday.
Eli Zachary Shinhoster’s lawyer declined to have him appear in court on Monday. Shinhoster had been detained in juvenile detention since his arrest on July 1 until the transfer.
According to Miami-Dade police, the incident happened on June 27 outside the victim’s house in the 600 block of Northwest 11th Street in Homestead, just before 7:40 p.m.
In order to follow out his plan of killing one of his ex-girlfriend’s family members in order to hurt her because she broke the relationship, Shinhoster, according to his police report, took a rideshare to the residence.
According to the police, Shinhoster acknowledged taking out a gun, shooting Eulalia Gonzalez Martin De Osorio on her front porch as she was holding her infant daughter, and then running away.
He acknowledged re-putting the revolver in his waistband and requesting a different ridesharing home, according to the report.
Gonzalez was discovered by the police unconscious on top of her unhurt child. Before shooting her, Shinhoster allegedly said, “I’ll fire,” according to a neighbor.
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About two months prior to the murder, Gonzalez’s elder daughter had broken up with Shinhoster, according to the authorities. The two had been dating for almost nine months.
Shinhoster had been phoning Gonzalez concerning her daughter in the interim between the separation and the murder. He allegedly threatened Gonzalez’s daughter as well, telling her that “she could not be with anyone else if she was not with him,” according to the police.
Shinhoster was taken into juvenile detention following the execution of a search warrant at his house in the Princeton neighborhood in southwest Miami-Dade, according to the report.
The charge against Shinhoster is second-degree murder. Gonzalez’s family has established a GoFundMe campaign to assist with burial costs and legal expenditures; it may be accessed by visiting this link.
Tuesday morning, Shinhoster was still being held without being granted bond.
