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Multiple witnesses

- Johnny Diaz

Twelve witnesses, including deputies, firefighte­rs, family members and neighbors, were listed in reports. Some claimed they saw the shooting but were actually too far away to see into the dark yard, FDLE said.

Woodard’s boyfriend Brown watched what happened from a rear window of the home. He told a sheriff’s detective in a sworn, recorded statement that Frazier didn’t lunge at the deputies, that he had a knife in one hand and a spoon in the other and that when the deputies were about three feet away, Brown heard four or five shots.

The spoon was never found. Deborah Frazier said it wasn’t true that her brother held the knife, or rose to confront deputies and that by the time they arrived, he’d calmed down.

“Corey told me he didn’t tell the cops Greg had the knife in his hand,” she said. “[Greg] was sitting down, sitting there eating dinner.”

Paramedics found Frazier’s injuries were “incompatib­le with life” and declared him dead. One of the deputies was emotionall­y distraught and paramedics took him to a rescue truck, reports said.

The Broward County Medical Examiner found Frazier died from six gunshot wounds that were consistent with being shot while he was in the process of standing up and leaning forward. The death was ruled a homicide, FDLE said.

Frazier was buried in a cemetery in Pompano Beach, his sister said.

Gloria Fajardo, the mother of Miami CubanAmeri­can singer Gloria Estefan, died Tuesday night. She was 88.

Estefan shared the news on her Instagram account. “Tonight at 8:19 p.m. we lost my beloved mother, the inimitable Gloria Fajardo. She went peacefully surrounded by her daughters, grandchild­ren, sons-in-law, niece, three loving caregivers, extended family and her most trusted friends.”

In recent weeks, Estefan had been sharing photos of her mother with updates on her health and asking for positive thoughts and prayers.

Gloria Estefan’s parents, Jose and Gloria Fajardo, fled with her from their native Cuba to the United States after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959. In Miami, Fajardo worked as a teacher while supporting the family.

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