Man shot and killed after he climbs through window of Lauderhill home, exchanges gunfire with people inside

A man is dead after a brazen act late Sunday night when he climbed through the front window of his estranged girlfriend’s home, confronting her and a man who shot the intruder to death after he drew a gun on them, police said.

Waiting in a car parked outside the home: the four children of the intruder and his estranged girlfriend.

Somebody called 911 from a home on Northwest 23rd Street about 11 p.m. but hung up, and police were sent to the home where they found a man who said he had just shot an intruder, said Major Michael Santiago, a spokesman for the Lauderhill Police Department. The man said he and the intruder exchanged fire. The shooter and the estranged girlfriend were cooperating with the investigation, Santiago said.

The intruder died at the scene. Neither the shooter nor the estranged girlfriend were struck during the gunfire, Santiago said.

Santiago said police were at the home Monday executing a search warrant to “collect any evidence that might add a piece to this puzzle.”

The name of the dead man has not been releasednor have the names of the people inside the home.

Eileen Kelley can be reached at 772-925-9193 or ekelley@sunsentinel.com