Man, 87, charged with killing 84-year-old ex-girlfriend for suspected infidelity

Juan Adolfo Gonzalez, 87 and convinced that the 84-year-old woman he had briefly dated had been unfaithful, planned her slaying for several months, police say. He watched Celida Hernandez's daily activities, waiting to kill her. That day came last Friday. He shot her twice before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Gonzalez, who had non-life-threatening injuries, was charged with first-degree murder. The two had briefly dated, but Hernandez had ended the relationship and told him to leave her alone, police said. A police arrest report details what happened at the gated apartment complex where she lived with a grandson at 9400 W. Flagler St, Miami.



Gonzalez, armed with a gun, took a taxi to her apartment. He waited until a bus dropped her off from the senior's dining hall. He shot her twice in the hallway of her apartment, then shot himself twice. When officers got there, police said, Gonzalez told them: ``She is dead, I shot her.''

He was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Hernandez was a cancer survivor, partially blind and needed a walker, neighbours said. She was born in Cuba and had two daughters and a son. Her husband, who is still alive, was a businessman in Venezuela, they added.