A Florida woman caught on video shooting her ex-boyfriend, a Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison followed by 20 years of probation.
Yessenia Sanchez, who worked as a police officer for Miami-Dade Schools, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and aggravated stalking in the November 2022 shooting of Damian Colón.
The 35-year-old was accused of tracking Colón to his home in Hialeah, shooting him in the face and then fleeing the scene.
Surveillance video provided by the state attorney’s office appears to show the exact moment when Sanchez points a gun at the victim’s head and pulls the trigger.
Colón, a 17-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police Department, is seen collapsing onto the ground as Sanchez walks away.
The video also shows Sanchez’s truck smashing into other vehicles as she speeds away to flee the scene, leaving “a path of destruction,” according to investigators.
Sanchez, who had resigned from her job in 2021 following domestic violence charges stemming from a separate incident, was later arrested at her Hialeah home, NBC South Florida reported.
Colón — who now uses a wheelchair and retired from the MDSO earlier this month — was in the courtroom as Sanchez accepted her plea deal.
“Justice is served, and I think she got what she deserved,” he said, according to local station WPLG. “I think she should have gotten more, but I’ll take what she got.”
In a statement released to the press after Friday’s hearing, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Sanchez’s lengthy sentence won’t “restore the physical damage she did while trying to kill the man she once claimed to have loved.”
“Sadly, those scars will last forever,” she said.