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Suspected cop killer dead

- 00:30EDT - 14 Sep 2007

Suspected cop killer dead

DADE COUNTY, FL: Miami-Dade police announced that suspected cop killer Shawn Sherwin Labeet (Photo below) has reportedly been killed by officers Friday morning.

According to the police press conference, officers confronted Labeet at the Heron Pond apartment complex in southwest Pembroke Pines. After an exchange of shots, Labeet was shot and killed by officers. Labeet was reportedly found with handguns, ammunition and body armor.

The man suspected of killing one Miami-Dade cop and wounding three others Wednesday morning in a shootout in south Miami-Dade was cornered and shot dead in a Pembroke Pines apartment complex sometime before midnight, a law enforcement source told The Miami Herald.

Miami-Dade police would not confirm the information about suspect Shawn Sherwin LaBeet, but scheduled a news conference for 12:30 a.m. at its headquarters in Doral.

Additional information can be found at:

Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/236998.html

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-913dadeshooting,0,2310224.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout

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Thu, Sep. 13, 2007

1 officer shot dead, 3 wounded in SW Dade;
Wehner Not Wanted Suspect

DADE COUNTY, FL: The search for a cop-killer was complicated when police initially released an erroneous identification and photograph for the suspect. Almost five hours after the 11 a.m. shooting, police identified another man, 25-year-old Shawn Sherwin LaBeet, as the correct suspect. They said a second photograph they released was the correct one.

In another apparently erroneus lead, Miami-Dade police at about 16:00 p.m. reported a sighting of LaBeet behind the wheel of a black Pontiac Vibe accompanied by a woman and two children in Central Broward County. The auto soon after was located, empty, at a Target parking lot in Oakland Park, where it was roped off with yellow tape. But after locating the occupants, police then said the man driving the car was not LaBeet.

"We are no longer looking for the vehicle," said Miami-Dade Police Cdr. Linda O'Brien.

Investigators are checking whether there is any connection between the people in the car and LaBeet, she said. The car was found by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies.

O'Brien said the man earlier identified as the alleged shooter, Kevin Wehner, 30, was not involved and was in his hometown of Jacksonville on Thursday.

"It's a case of mistaken identity," John Wehner, Kevin Wehner's uncle in New York, told The Miami Herald earlier.

He said that his nephew contacted Jacksonville police Thursday afternoon to tell them of the mixup. The uncle said his nephew had recently reported to authorities that his wallet, containing his driver's license, had been stolen.

"It appears we have been misled about (the suspect's) initial identity," Miami-Dade's O'Brien said. She said she was glad Wehner stepped forward quickly. "It appears LaBeet had obtained his ID." This article continues at: http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/236186.html