It began when forty-two year old Pedro Vargas tried to light his apartment on fire.
The building managers rushed to the sight of the smoke only to have Vargas shoot both of them down.
Vargas then fired as many as twenty rounds from off of his balcony into the street, killing one man, and forcing responding emergency personnel to take cover.
He then went to the third floor, kicked open an apartment door, and killed all three of the occupants.
Continuing to to evade police, he ran through the building, firing off random rounds.
On the fifth floor he took two hostages and barricaded himself in their apartment.
Police attempted to negotiate with him, but around 02:00 EDT talks fell apart, a SWAT team breached the premises, and was forced to kill Vargas.
During the incident Hialeah police were joined by over one hundred officers from other jurisdictions.
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