Tamarac Man Missing Beneath Rubble after Parking Garage Collapse

A Tamarac man is missing after a Miami Dade College parking garage collapsed on him and others on Wednesday morning.

Resident Robert Budhoo is an electrician with Stryker Electric, a contractor on the job.  He currently lives in Tamarac with his wife and three children.  The death toll is at three with only Budhoo missing at this time.

Construction workers were inside the garage at the time of the collapse where they only had seconds to get out. Samuel Perez, 53, whose legs were pinned under a large piece of concrete and had to have them amputated has died this morning.

Miami Dade Police identified the other men who died as  Carlos Hurtado Demendoza, 48, and Jose Calderon, 60.

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