SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A deadly shooting in Southwest Miami-Dade left one dead and sent one person to the hospital.
The incident happened overnight in the area of Southwest 263rd Terrace, near Southwest 128th Court, Friday.
An 18-year-old man was shot, then airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital South in critical condition. He succumbed to his injuries while he was at the hospital.
A girl was also shot and injured; Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the 17-year-old to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital. She is said to be in stable condition.
According to Miami-Dade Police, this was a dispute between a stepfather and his stepson.
The two got into some argument, which quickly escalated and turned deadly.
Police spent 12 hours investigating the incident.
7News knocked at the home where the shooting happened, and a man there said, “This was an incident we wished never happened.”
William Walker is a resident that lives by where the shooting happened and also has a ShotSpotter device attached to his home.
“You know when you hear it, it’s a gunshot. It’s not a firework, and then about a minute, maybe two minutes later, I heard like six gunshots,” Walker said.
Walker said police showed up after the shots rang out.
Officials were seen detaining a man, who they said was the stepfather who killed his 18-year-old stepson.
The two got into an argument, said police, and the 18-year-old pulled out a gun first, which resulted in the stepfather drawing his gun.
Shots were then exchanged.
Just a couple of blocks from that investigation, video footage showed a black sedan riddled with bullets under a yellow tarp.
According to the homeowners, at around 1 a.m., the vehicle smashed into a fence on Southwest 263rd Terrace.
The car was towed away at around 8 a.m.
The house where the vehicle ended up is being blocked off as police collect evidence.
“I saw the markers out in the yard over there, when they put down the markers for the shell casings, and it was a trail of them from the front door all the way down, almost to the sidewalk there,” Walker said.
Once the stepfather was in handcuffs, Walker said the man shouted at him.
“He said something like, ‘Neighbor, somebody shot at me, so I grabbed my gun,'” Walker said. “Earlier in the day, they had some kind of domestic dispute over there, also looked like an argument, and the guy sped away, was not in the same color car as the one involved in the shooting.”
This shooting is just one of several incidents that have occurred throughout Southwest Miami-Dade in the last few weeks.
On Monday, the community gathered for a town hall meeting in Goulds to discuss the ongoing gun violence.
Early that morning, a 16-year-old was shot and sent to the hospital. No one cooperated with police on that investigation.
The week prior, five people were shot at the Perrine Rainbow Apartments during a drive-by, and the previous week, four teens were sent to the hospital after a shooting at Cutler Manor Apartments.
“We got concerned because we’ve lived here for five years and nothing like that has ever happened,” said Jessica Zeyas, a resident at Cutler Manor Apartments.
The stepfather was released from police custody, Friday afternoon.
An investigation is underway, but police do no have probable cause to make an arrest at this time.
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