Tagger graffiti5/29/2023 ![]() Evidence indicated that the police car was traveling less than 15 miles per hour at the point of impact, it said. "The subject either fell or was attempting to hide the spray cans under a nearby car," the statement said. In a statement Miami Police Department said officers observed Rodriguez "committing an act of vandalism by spray painting the façade of a business storefront not related to Art Basel." A chase ensued and Rodriguez was hit when a police car turned a corner and in the darkness failed to see him crouching near the sidewalk, according to the police statement. The latest incident came at the peak of Miami’s annual Art Week, which hosts nearly two dozen fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach, among the world’s most prominent contemporary art events. Israel Hernandez-Llach, 18, died in August last year after being struck by a police Taser gun when he was cornered by officers who spotted him spray-painting a building in Miami Beach. Rodriguez is the second street artist to die in the Miami area in the past 16 months. Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, 21, who died late Tuesday, had been hit by the police car on Friday night after officers spotted him spray-painting the side of a building in Wynwood, a hip Miami neighborhood popular with street artists, police said. “He died doing what he loved,” Nannette Gutierrez wrote on Instagram alongside pictures of her son's name spray-painted in bright blue bubble letters. By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - A graffiti artist who went by the nickname "Demz" died after being hit by a police car during a chase amid the height of Miami's annual Art Week, according to his mother.
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