Ana Beatriz Santo Rodriguez, a 29-year-old woman from Miami, was shot multiple times late on the morning of July 18, 2025, outside a home near Northwest 10th Lane and Northwest 127th Path in the Tamiami area. Deputies responding around 10:23 a.m. found her on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds; Miami-Dade Fire Rescue pronounced her dead at the scene. Investigators soon tied the gunfire to a rapidly unfolding chain of events that would stretch across West Miami-Dade that same morning.
Detectives identified the shooter as 48-year-old Liev Canals, the victim’s boyfriend. Surveillance footage captured a man approaching the driver’s side of a dark SUV moments before the attack, and authorities said Ana Beatriz Santo Rodriguez, age 29, was seated inside. After the shooting, the gunman fled. The grim search for the suspect intersected with a separate call blocks away, where officers were responding to a traffic crash near Southwest 107th Avenue and Third Street in Sweetwater.
At the Sweetwater crash scene, officers found the same man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, linking the collision to the homicide in Tamiami. Miami-Dade investigators publicly connected the two incidents later that day, confirming the identities of the deceased as Ana Beatriz Santo Rodriguez, 29, and Liev Canals, 48. Officials described the case as a murder-suicide, with no evidence of additional suspects.
Because the suspected gunman died at the second scene, there were no arrests. Authorities have not announced any other persons of interest and indicated that the investigative focus was on documenting the timeline and circumstances surrounding the domestic nature of the killing and the subsequent suicide. Public records and news reports list the homicide date as July 18, 2025, in Miami-Dade County, with the investigation led by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau.
