DAVIE (CBSMiami) – A Lauderhill police officer charged with attempted murder over the weekend after he allegedly fired on another Lauderhill officer will remain behind bars.
During a hearing Monday morning, bond was denied for 30-year old Kristopher Bieger.
According to his arrest affidavit, Bieger had been dating Officer Brittny Skinner for several months.
“For the last two to three months, they have multiple verbal arguments, jealousy, mistrust, constantly calling her, harassing her,” said Broward Circuit Judge John Hurley as he read from the arrest affidavit. “ Finally, she broke up and said ‘Do not call me anymore, stay away’.”
The shooting happened Saturday around 7 p.m. in the 5500 block of Oakland Boulevard, according to Lauderhill Police Captain Constance Stanley. Bieger reportedly fired 10 shots a female officer sitting a patrol car but missed. Stanley said the female officer was working a private duty case when the shooting happened.
“Obviously she’s very fortunate to still be here and not get hit,” said Stanley. “He shot several times. He did miss her.”One of the bullets reportedly hit the officer in her bullet proof vest.
She also said none of the other people in the busy shopping center were hit.
“A truck pulled up on the side of her car, shots rang out, it was like a movie, you know,” said a witness who did not want to the identified in this report, “I was so close I had to take cover, I thought somebody was shooting at me.”
Edmond Pascal said he heard the gunfire ring out from his barbershop.
“When I go outside, the police say nobody go outside,” recalled Pascal.
After the shooting, Bieger fled and ended up at a Davie pizza restaurant in the 4800 block of Volunteer Road where the Davie police department’s Special Response Team took him into custody. Employees at Donato’s Ristorante watched as the team members came in through the rear of the restaurant with guns drawn and surround Bieger.
“It was a little scary, but everything was fine,” said Juan Arebalo, a cook.
The police report says that Beiger was suicidal after the shooting, even asking a fellow officer for a bullet. He also spoke to family, the report says, admitting he just shot up Officer Skinner’s car.
Bieger has been with Lauderhill police for the last five years. He is now suspended without pay. He’s being held on no bond.
