The family filed a missing persons report the next day. Another of Pierre s sisters scrolled through Facebook and saw a video showing the previous day s police scene and a body covered by a yellow tarp. Something in the footage stood out to her the flip-flops Pierre liked to wear everywhere he went. It was a devastating way to find out where he was. The family was never the same afterward, Isemailene says.
They would soon learn that Pierre had been shot by police after a tense encounter in which, according to officers, he refused to put down a shotgun. A close-out memo from the Miami-Dade State Attorney s Office signed by State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle last month says the 11 officers who fired their weapons have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.