MIAMI -- Ricardo 'Monkey' Morales Navarette, a confessed terrorist and informant, was shot and critically wounded during a barroom argument over who would pay for a woman's drink, police said Tuesday.
'It (was) a spur-of-the-moment, get-out-your-gun, shoot-'em-up,' said homicide detective Steven Roadruck.
Morales, 42, was shot once in the head at a dimly lit Key Biscayne bar at 11:41 p.m. Monday, police said. Roadruck said the shooting followed an argument Morales had with another man over who would pay for a woman's drink.
Dade County police spokesman John Jones said several of Morales' friends who were with him at the bar gave police a description of the gunman.
Morales' most recent notoriety resulted from his involvement as a police informant in the Miami Police Department's Tick-Talks drug-trafficking case.
During his two-decade involvement with a variety of causes, Morales had been an intelligence officer for the Cuban government, chief of counter-espionage for the Venezuelan secret police, an anti-communist mercenary in the Belgian Congo, and an informant for the FBI, CIA and Drug Enforcement Administration.
