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'Somebody has to know something': Evidence in 2016 Davie murder to be retested 10%
By Angie DiMichele8%
7/24/2026, 11:00:18 AM
Topics: Crime And Public Safety
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In a bedroom of a home in a quiet Davie neighborhood, a 21-year-old man was discovered on the floor, shot multiple times.
The person responsible for his death remains unknown 10 years later.
In the decade since the murder of Daniel Padilla, technology in DNA testing has greatly advanced.
And Davie Police will soon retest evidence at a private lab, Davie Cold Case Detective Eddy Velazquez told the South Florida Sun Sentinel this week, in addition to evidence that was never tested before.
Broward Crime Stoppers recently announced the reward for information that leads to an arrest in Padilla’s murder has been doubled to $10,000.
On June 8, 2016, Padilla was shot and killed in a lakeview home in the 900 block of Cumberland Terrace in the Shenandoah community where he lived with his sibling, who owned the home and was a detective with the Miami Beach Police Department’s special victims unit at the time, the Sun Sentinel reported in 2016.
“I believe that somebody in that neighborhood knows what happened to Daniel,” Velazquez said.
Padilla ran errands alone that day, Velazquez said.
He went to the post office.
He stopped at the McDonald’s a mile away from his home.
He went to a friend’s house nearby just before 4 p.m.
Padilla left his friend’s home but had planned to go back there.
“He just never came back,” Velazquez told the Sun Sentinel.
About 5 or 5:30 p.m. inside the family home on Cumberland Terrace, a relative found Padilla, who had been shot multiple times, Velazquez said.
Padilla was lying on the floor of a second-level bedroom, according to a Medical Examiner’s Office report obtained by the Sun Sentinel.
The relative who found Padilla told a detective that he had not seen or heard anything before finding Padilla in the bedroom and calling 911.
“He must have come in just after something happened,” Velazquez said.
“He didn’t hear anything, didn’t see anybody.”
An autopsy determined Padilla had been shot in the head four times, according to the autopsy report.
His manner of death was determined to be homicide.
There were two spent shell casings lying near Padilla on the floor, and crime scene investigators later found two more, one under the bed and one on top of the bed, the Medical Examiner’s Office report said.
No guns were found in the room.
The casings found at the scene are among the evidence that will be tested, Velazquez said, but he said he could not provide further details.
No matter the age of a cold case, each has its own unique challenges; Velazquez said oftentimes when decades-old investigations are revisited, witnesses and suspects have died, evidence can’t be found, was misplaced or was never collected to begin with.
But in the investigation of Padilla's murder, Velazquez said: “That's not the case … It just went cold,” aside from receiving a few Crime Stoppers tips years ago.
“We still have people that grew up in that neighborhood that are still there, and people talk in the streets,” he said.
“This kid was 21 years old.
He knew a lot of people … Somebody has to know something, somewhere.”
Authorities ask anyone with information to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 or go to browardcrimestoppers.org.
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