MIAMI (AP) — Two people were killed and multiple others wounded following a shooting early Tuesday in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, police said.
Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the dead include a 20-year-old man and a teenage girl. Police officials say a 17-year-old girl was critically wounded in the shooting which happened near an intersection around 2:30 a.m.
“It’s very early in our investigation,” police spokeswoman Frederica Burden said. “I’m not sure how it occurred. We’re investigating it now. I don’t know if they were all outside standing, some in a car, some not in a car. I don’t know that yet.”
The sidewalk was littered with dozens of spent shell casings marked by blue police cones and shattered glass by mid-morning Tuesday. Some relatives standing nearby said they were afraid to talk about the shootings.
A Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital spokeswoman said she couldn’t release information, including how many people were brought there. She also said the patients had chosen not to release information about their medical conditions.
Police were asking anyone with information about the shootings to come forward.
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Clearly what’s required in Miami is more guns.
Just amazing. Daily senseless tragedies have become the new normal because gun violence is a partisan issue in Congress.
Looks like a gangs related shootout. Doesn’t it happen every day in “gun less” Chicago?
When the residents are afraid to say anything about the shootings, you’ve got bigger problems than just guns. This sounds like the borderlands of Mexico.