A woman died Wednesday morning after she was shot multiple times in front of her two young children, and the children’s father is now in custody, police said.

Derrick Feliciano Bargman-Williams, 28, of Miramar, is accused of shooting Jessica Frankel Singleton in front of their 1-year-old and 4-year-old children, according to an arrest report. He was taken to the Broward Sheriff’s Office jail but had not yet been processed as of early Wednesday evening.

Shortly before 8:30 a.m., Miramar police were alerted by SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, to gunshots near the area of the 2300 block of Desoto Drive and arrived at the scene as a 911 call came in to dispatchers, Tania Rues, a police department spokesperson, said.

Officers found Singleton lying on her side next to a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds in the front and back of her body, the arrest report said. They immediately began attempting to life-saving attempts, and she was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

A woman was standing with Singleton’s and Bargman-Williams’ two young children in a grassy area just to the north of the crime scene, the arrest report said. One of the children told an officer, “Daddy did it to mommy and mommy is dead.”

While still at the scene, Miramar officers learned that home surveillance video from a residence in the area recorded a man running south on Desoto Drive carrying a red backpack with a little boy running after him shouting, “Daddy, daddy, daddy,” the report said.

Sheriff’s Office dispatchers reported to officers that a man was seen in the area of La Salle Boulevard and Bahama Drive that matched the description of the person who fled the crime scene, the report said. Bargman-Williams was detained there.

Rues said he was found hiding in bushes, and a Broward Sheriff’s Office helicopter helped find him. A K9 assisted in detaining him, and he was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital to be treated for a dog bite, the arrest report said.

Bargman-Williams spoke to officers while detained at the Miramar Police Department and identified himself as the man running in the surveillance video and the person running behind him as his son, the arrest report said.

He told officers he had been arguing with Singleton from Tuesday night into the morning and it turned physical, both of them hitting each other. The argument continued outside of the home, where he allegedly shot her, the report said.

Rues said the Department of Children and Families will determine where the children will go.

Bargman-Williams was arrested in August 2019 on a felony domestic battery charge in Miramar, accused of hitting Singleton in the face, according to a probable cause affidavit in that case. She was four months’ pregnant at the time and said they had a then-2-year-old daughter together.

Singleton obtained a protection injunction, and Bargman-Williams was arrested not long after the incident for violating the order by being at her apartment and giving officers a false name and date of birth, according to court records.

The charge against Bargman-Williams for violating the order was dropped, and he pleaded no contest to the charge of giving officers false information, court records show. His sentence was to pay court costs.

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