Four Killed by Police in Botched 'Sting' — Including the Police Informant: Police Claim Each Victim 'Went for a Gun' — Video Shows Otherwise

Clockwise from top left: Rosendo Betancourt (the police informant), Antonio Andrews, and Rodger Gonzalez, Sr. Police
claim all three (including the informant Betancourt) tried to reach for "guns" they had in their waistbands (even though
all were unarmed). In the top two photos the deceased can be seen with their hands up. In the killingshown in the bottom photo Gonzalez had already thrown away his gun.

During a police sting on home invaders police informant, Rosendo Betancourt, was supposed to stay in the car and let the home invaders walk into the trap police had set for them. But the informant was compelled to leave the car and go with the home invaders to where the trap was set. At that point, Betancourt warned the police officers that the sting was not going as planned: "You heard everything right? The problem is he wants me to go with him." A short time later, Betancourt, signaled to the police that something was wrong by using the "Disney World" code phrase they had agreed upon: "After this, I'm heading to Disney World."

But the police did nothing after Betancourt used the code phrase and let the "sting" operation go forward. Soon after that, the three home invaders and the police informant were dead. At least three of those killed, including the informant Betancourt, appeared to be executed in cold blood.

Miami-Dade County agreed to pay only $600,000 to the families of three of those killed during the botched police sting. The family of the informant have not settled with Miami-Dade County yet. No police officers were jailed or fined.

The Plan Was to Lure Home Invaders into a Trap