Police forced Patrick Carroll to undergo a mental health evaluation and give up his firearms, a week after reports of gunshots fired near or at the multifamily mogul’s Miami Beach home.
“Regarding Mr. Carroll, I can confirm that he was transported to a local health care facility for a mental health evaluation,” Miami Beach Police Department spokesperson Christopher Bess told The Real Deal via email on Thursday. “And a risk protection order was served. This investigation continues.”
Last Thursday, cops responded to Carroll’s waterfront home at 810 Lakeview Drive after neighbors called 911 about him firing a gun in his backyard. Before police arrived, Carroll posted and then deleted a video on his Instagram account that shows him on his boat docked behind his property. TRD obtained a copy of the deleted post.
Wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a white towel draped over his shoulders, Carroll is seen clutching a shotgun. He fires the shotgun three times.
An unknown man filming Carroll tells him, “Careful, Pat.”
“Shut up,” Carroll responds. The caption of the deleted Instagram post says, “These are the only blanks I shoot…”
In a text message on Friday, Carroll told TRD that he didn’t shoot any live rounds. “I spoke to the cops, and they were laughing about it,” Carroll said at the time. “I was doing it for an [Instagram] video.”
Florida passed its Red Flag law in 2018, in the wake of the mass shooting that killed 17 people and injured 17 more at Broward County’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Senior HIgh. The measure allows law enforcement agencies to seek court orders that temporarily prohibit dangerous individuals from possessing or purchasing a firearm.
Carroll — who last year sold his firm, Atlanta-based Carroll Organization, for $80 million, but maintains other investments — has to surrender all his guns within 72 hours. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since police officers came to his house last week, Carroll has posted videos on his Instagram account that show him engaging in volatile, erratic behavior. For instance, Carroll filmed himself berating the manager of a Miami Rolls-Royce dealership, and arguing with employees of an Apple store.
In several posts on his Instagram over the weekend, Carroll lashed out at nightclub and restaurant impresario David Grutman, after Carroll claimed he was told by employees of LIV nightclub in Miami Beach not to film inside the venue. Grutman and his partner, Aventura-based developer Jeffrey Soffer, own LIV, which is inside Soffer’s Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort.
“F*ck you, fat boy,” Carroll wrote in one post. “I’m going to put you out of business. Steal your wife if I want and many other things. You confused my kindness for weakness.”
Carroll also posted a screenshot of an Instagram direct message he received from Grutman, who told Carroll, “I hope you get help.”
“I have never been anything but nice to you,” Grutman added. “I hope you get the attention you’re seeking and sadly, I think you will end up dead…Everyone is [tuned] into your self-destruction and I know you can be better than this.”
Grutman declined to comment.
Carroll has been banned from other fine dining establishments in Miami, including Hiyakawa Miami in Wynwood, Cote Miami in the Miami Design District and Carbone in Miami Beach for allegedly being disrespectful to service workers. A Hiyakawa manager who alleges Carroll spit in his face last April is also suing Carroll for defamation.
On Sunday, after he was released, Carroll said via text message that he “did not think [Miami Beach Police] had any reason to do what they did,” and that physicians “determined that I had zero mental health issues and was 100 percent sober.”