MIAMI — With family at his bedside and fellow officers gathered in support outside Jackson Memorial Hospital, Cesar Echaverry — a five-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police Department — remained in “extremely critical condition” in the neurological intensive care unit on Tuesday.
But barring a miracle, the young detective, just 29 and with plans to marry, was not expected to recover from a severe head wound, according to multiple law enforcement sources who told the Herald that the injury had left him brain dead and hooked to medical machinery keeping him alive.
A day after a shootout with an armed robbery suspect Monday night in Liberty City, police officially identified the officer, who is a member of the county’s elite Robbery Intervention Detail unit.
