On a spring night inside a luxury Brickell condo, an internet entrepreneur named Haider Rana was watching TV with an exotic dancer after a day of hanging out at the pool. They heard a knock. Rana grabbed his pistol and went to the front door.
Seconds later, there was a gunshot. Someone fell to the ground in the doorway, mortally wounded.
But that person was no intruder, Miami-Dade prosecutors say. Instead, on the night of May 6, 2021, Rana fatally shot 25-year-old Maame Amuah, an unarmed woman who lived across the street and had been in a romantic relationship with him, according to investigators.
Miami-Dade prosecutors have now charged Rana, 24, with second-degree murder with a firearm, rejecting a self-defense claim — he told detectives that an unknown person, crouched down and hiding from the peephole, “pushed the door open.” Amuah, the investigation revealed, had been calling Rana all day and wanted to hang out with him that evening, according to an arrest warrant.
nday, a Miami-Dade judge ordered him held with no bond pending trial. Court records do not list a defense attorney.
‘Stand Your Ground’ law faces test
The case will likely be a test of Florida’s controversial self-defense law, which critics have long contended fosters vigilante justice and allows killers to get away with murder — as long as they claim they were in fear for their lives.
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