Police asked her to wear a wire during conversations with Nissim-something she never did-and allegedly warned her that he could be dangerous. It was just like her gut feeling this guy was involved.” Felix Guadarrama told “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.” “She just kept saying that he had to be involved and there was an issue over money. “I don’t think she could say,” former North Miami Police Det. She believed he may have been behind the execution, but was never able to provide specific details about why Nissim might have wanted Mesa dead. “My husband gave Illam Nissim money to purchase lots to get in the business,” she said, adding that the $180,000 her husband had given Nissim was later lost in a robbery. “When the police questioned me and they said who are his friends and partners, does he had any incident that’s when I said ‘Well, you know there was an incident with this business venture,’” Carballo said.Īccording to Carballo, her husband had been upset after Nissim, a business associate working with Mesa on a real estate deal, had lost a large chunk of cash. “If you have information that you know, please just come forward.”Īs police tried to piece together who killed Mesa, they began to look closely at his friends and business associates.Ĭarballo also provided police with the name of a possible suspect, Illam Nissim. “Hug your family, kiss your children, you don’t know when you’re going to lose them,” she said through sobs. The young mother’s anguish was visible just days later when she spoke to the media, at the request of the police, and begged for anyone with information to come forward.

Police would later deliver the devastating news that her husband had died. “Of course I was torn in two, but my main concern was my baby, so I jumped immediately into the ambulance,” Carballo said. “When there was shooting at him, he just lifted my son up.”Īs her husband lay dying on the streets, she was forced to decide whether to stay with him or ride in the ambulance with her injured son. “My son was shot in his arm and his leg, but you know, his father protected him,” Carballo said. Mesa used his final moments to protect his young son. “He was on the ground, they come back by, and now you have a second rally of shots,” Shinn said. The men jumped back into their car, but fired again a second time before speeding away. Trevor Shinn, of the North Miami Police Department, told “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered” that surveillance footage from Mesa’s home captured images of a white car barreling onto the curb, as two armed men got out and ran around the corner where they opened fire on the father and son. Mesa, who had once been a part of the drug world, purchased a couple of lunch trucks and began to dabble in real estate development.Īfter falling in love, the couple married and had their son Noah a short time later.īy April of 2008, the couple was happily settled into domestic life together, until Mesa was killed. The young hairdresser found herself drawn to Mesa’s sense of humor and ambition. Carballo and Mesa, a mechanic, met in 2006.

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