A family is grieving after a mother and her four-year-old son were killed in a murder-suicide outside a Chase Bank in West Kendall in the US state of Florida.
Odalys Bancroft, 43, and her son Theodore Couto were shot to death in the ATM line of a Chase Bank in the area of Bird Rd and 152nd Avenue on June 7.
“Never in a million years would I expect anything like this to happen,” Bancroft’s brother Michael Trujillo said.
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Trujillo said his sister was kind-hearted and empathetic.
Bancroft was the director of regulatory affairs at Jackson Health System. She joined the hospital system in 2015, beginning her career as a clinical staff nurse, and eventually worked in leadership roles at Holtz Children’s Hospital.
“I just can’t imagine any situation that would bring a normal person to do this sort of thing to a woman and her child,” said Trujillo.
Her son, Theodore Couto, was known as Teddy, and recently graduated from PreK-4 (kindergarten preparation for four-year-olds). He would have turned five next month.
“Everywhere that he was, was always just a happier place with him around,” said Trujillo.
According to Miami-Dade Police, Bancroft was in a minivan with her son when she pulled up to the bank’s ATM and was in line. A man in an SUV pulled up next to her and opened fire, killing the her and the boy.
Police said the shooter then took his own life.
Video of the incident, obtained by NBC6, was filmed by a witness at the Chase Bank.
Family members told NBC6 the gunman was Bancroft’s ex-boyfriend. He was identified by police on Monday as 41-year-old Michael Andres Pineda Lozano.
“There were some concerns about him, but nothing that stuck out like this,” said Trujillo. “They were going through a breakup, but no signs that I was aware of that there was fear like that.”
Teddy’s father was at the scene Friday, frantic, as police tried to console him.
A GoFundMe page has been created to support Odalys and Theodore’s family.
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