Surveillance video shows the confrontation between a woman and a homeless man before she was found dead under a Miami Metrorail platform.
Jorge Gomez, 45, was arrested Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 32-year-old Kanisa Love, an arrest report said.
According to the report, on Nov. 15, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies and fire rescue responded to the area of Southwest 80th Street and U.S. 1 for a report of an unconscious female.
Once they arrived, they found the body of Love lying on the ground under the Dadeland South Metrorail station, the report said.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner performed an autopsy and determined she died from blunt force trauma and classified her manner of death as homicide.
Investigators determined that a day earlier, Gomez approached Love and without any provocation pushed her to the ground, the report said.
The report said the incident was captured on surveillance footage. It didn’t give a possible motive for the killing or say whether Gomez and Love knew each other.
The surveillance video also showed the moments before the attack, authorities said. Love is seen backing away from Gomez, who has his hands on his head and is following her.
“He pushed the victim off the Metrorail platform resulting in her death,” a prosecutor said during Gomez’s appearance in bond court on Friday.
Judge Mindy Glazer ordered Gomez held without bond.
“He killed a 32-year-old lady standing on a Metrorail station, pushed her off,” Glazer said, shaking her head. “You see it all.”
However, witnesses told NBC6 they saw Gomez push Love at a nearby shopping plaza. Investigators said the fall on her head ultimately killed her.
Love is from Georgia and has no family in South Florida, said Marketta Humphrey, who went to high school with her.
“We were so close that me and her cousin had a child together, and we became family,” Humphrey told NBC6.
She described Love as the life of the party.
“She spent the night at my house every day, full of life. She could get you out of sadness,” Humphrey said. “Her spirit was inviting and welcoming.”
Love turned 32 on Nov. 7. A week later, she was found dead.
“I’m going to really miss her. She’s everything, I’m not going to lie,” Humphrey said.
