Miami, Florida

The man accused of killing a Miami-Dade police officer was shot 15 times by the officer's colleagues after they cornered him in Pembroke Pines, Broward County's chief medical examiner said Monday.

After a daylong hunt ended late Thursday night at the Heron Pond apartment complex, Shawn Labeet was spotted with a gun, Dr. Joshua Perper said, basing his analysis on preliminary information from police. They ordered him to drop the weapon, he refused and tried instead to retreat into an enclosure.

Officers fired at him and 15 bullets either grazed or entered his body, Perper said.

"Some of them appear to have stippling around them, which indicates a distance of two to three feet," he said. "That's not a very distant gunshot wound."

The two wounds that proved fatal entered Labeet's chest from the right side of his body, inducing terminal bleeding, Perper said. The bullets pierced his liver, kidney, stomach, and left lung. The bullet that remained lodged in his chest was the only one recovered.

On Monday, Miami-Dade officials arranged today's memorial services for Officer Jose Somohano, 37, at Florida International University. He was one of four officers shot Thursday after following Labeet home at 28165 SW 143rd Court in Miami-Dade. The others survived.

Officer Jody Wright, 31, was recovering from a serious leg wound at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Officers Christopher Carlin, 34, and Tomas Tundidor, 37, were treated for minor bullet wounds and released.

Also Monday, the Broward Sheriff's Office kicked off a weeklong Operation "Full Blitz" aimed at getting criminals and suspects off the streets. The goal is to keep communities safe from all criminal activities that could add to the mounting toll of slain and wounded officers. In addition to Somohano, sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Reyka was killed and Detective Maury Hernandez was seriously wounded in August.

In assigning about 50 members of the sheriff's Specialized Operational Services division throughout Broward County, Lt. Darin D. Dowe reminded them to be careful.

"We are not going to sacrifice safety in any way, shape or form," Dowe told the deputies dressed in black protective gear who gathered for the media briefing at the division's Pompano Beach offices.

The division's Capt. Jim Polan added, "If we arrest a million people but one of us gets hurt, then the mission wasn't successful. If we all go out and we don't do very well, but we all go home at night, that's the most important thing."

Polan said the special operation has been in the works since early August, before the recent shootings. Such tragic incidents encourage officers to get back on the road to keep communities safe, he said.

That's what Somohano and three of his colleagues were doing in Cutler Bay on Thursday when they encountered Labeet, who was driving erratically. Labeet opened fire with a military-grade assault rifle, then escaped by enlisting the help of his friends and relatives, police said. Five have been charged as accessories after the fact and a sixth is accused of failing to cooperate with investigators.

A woman reached Monday at Labeet's mother's home in Margate declined to comment.

Pembroke Pines Maj. David Golt said the Miami-Dade Police Department will conduct an Internal Affairs investigation once Pembroke Pines completes its inquiry into the shooting. He said he could not release additional details.

Detective Juan Villalba, a spokesman for Miami-Dade police, said the agency's investigators have not released any information about how they tracked down Labeet or the roles his accused accomplices played.

Labeet's girlfriend and the mother of his three children, Renee Dangelo, 26, was released on bail Sunday. During Full Blitz, the sheriff's seven specialty units will pull over drivers, serve fugitive and drug house warrants, jump out at corners where drugs are sold and otherwise respond to crime between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily. As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, they had arrested four people and issued 104 citations, Polan said.

Polan showed off the type of weapons the team has available to combat criminals running around with assault rifles and body armor. He displayed the $2,200 Colt AR-15, a fully-equipped patrol rifle. The weapon surpasses the regular pistol in range and accuracy and can penetrate a suspect's body armor.

About 300 deputies are trained to use them, Polan said. "It's been a long time coming in law enforcement," Polan said.