Carlos Martinez Jr., 49, and his wife Julia Caridad Martinez Garcia, 52, were fatally shot on December 21, 2019, in the driveway of their two-story home in the Lakes On The Green community in northwest Miami-Dade County. Their 69-year-old father and father-in-law, Carlos Manuel Martinez Sr., who had been living in a garage apartment on the property, is accused of shooting both victims during a family dispute.

A granddaughter who was present escaped and called 911 after initially thinking the gunfire was fireworks; she later found her parents unresponsive and bleeding. Police arrested Martinez Sr. after a two-hour standoff and charged him with two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated assault with a firearm. He was being held without bond at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

The motive was not immediately clear beyond ongoing family conflict. Did anyone in the Lakes On The Green area have contact with the family before December 21 who might help investigators fill in what led to this violence?