When the police brought Arnaldo back to his group home his was still shouting, wouldn’t calm down, he started getting violent. I mean, I’m not gonna…I don’t know honey, it was all the wrong time, you know? But he was alone and he’s not right, so what am I gonna do? I have to do something. I mean he saw his caretaker being shot and all the commotion. MM: That the poor man, you know, could be in shock. Shouted “Police shoot, police shoot,” over and over. And that blood was still there on the street. And I think they took him.Ĭharles lost a lot of blood in the shooting. This kid, the one that was involved in the shooting, is here by himself.’Īgain, this is a 26-year-old man we’re talking about, unarmed, in his neighborhood. Maria Minerva: Yeah, he was walking by himself, so I called the cops and said ‘Listen, yesterday there was a shooting. Maria Minerva was again out on her apartment balcony. That next night after the police shot Charles Kinsey, Arnaldo again ran out of the North Miami group home, around the corner, and back out to that intersection. He was taken to a hospital the next day when Arnaldo freaked out and had a panic attack because Charles was shot and he analyzed in his head what happened. I - almost a year later is when we see - we find out that Arnaldo was interrogated and not taken to a hospital. MRS: We didn't know Arnaldo was inside the car. But he couldn’t find Arnaldo, who at that point was handcuffed in the cop’s back seat. Gladys asked a church friend to go to the scene in North Miami for her.
And then he was handcuffed, and then put in a car for like hours. So he didn't sense the danger until he saw the blood. And taking him out of it is very difficult. MRS: Because he goes deep into his world. He was not understanding the gravity of the situation. He would tell Charles to shut up, because Charles talking to him was interrupting him from driving his little toy truck. MRS: He sees the police, he sees objects. MRS: Arnaldo was sitting, not understanding. Friends kept sharing it with her later and she just couldn’t. Miriam still hasn’t seen the whole cellphone video from the shooting. I wanted to know what they’d been through, and what happened to Arnaldo next. After learning all I could about the shooting on July 18th, I made contact with Arnaldo’s family. If you haven’t heard episode one, you probably want to go listen to that first. It was like, my sugar went down and my hands were shaking, my mom was screaming and yelling - I went to the bathroom to throw up, because it made me feel like - the thought of my brother dying or Charles dying - we thought Charles was dead.įrom WNYC Studios, this is episode two of Aftereffect. MRS: We were in the status of like, oh my God, is he dead? And we started panicking and getting sick. When the shooting happened on July 18th, 2016 Miriam was 29, living with her mom in Miami. Miriam Rios Soto: The first time we saw it was when the situation was still going on.
Gladys was already home, she’s a retired nurse, Miriam had just gotten home from her own nursing shift They found out about it on the evening news.
The therapist as you can see on the ground with his hands up but the autistic man doesn’t understand what’s happening. Arnaldo’s mom Gladys, and his older sister Miriam.ĪBC 7: They were confronted by police. On July 18th, 2016, two other people were watching the events around Charles Kinsey’s shooting. ABC 7: Disturbing video out of Miami tonight involving a medical therapist and the autistic man he was caring for.
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