FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - An investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale, police said, leaving neighbors shaken.
Fort Lauderdale Police units responded to reports of a shooting in a parking lot behind several businesses along the 1600 block of Southwest Third Avenue, just before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Upon arrival, officers found the victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to FLPD, preliminary information suggests the incident was a drive-by shooting.
Area residents said that just before shots rang out, they saw a burgundy or dark red car pull into the parking lot and leave shortly after.
Surveillance video from a nearby building captured the large sedan.
Neighbors said the shooting took place moments after the car pulled away.
“I saw that car in the same parking spot for a while, heard a bunch of shots, rang out, and he was backing out from the scene and took off,” said a witness.
“I heard the shots right through the window. I went, ‘That’s crazy,’ and I looked, and I saw the two gentlemen run to the red car,” said another witness.
7News cameras captured a white van with a bullet in the parking lot, as well as another vehicle with a flat rear tire that was possibly hit by a bullet.
Area residents said this is something that they never see happen in this neighborhood.
Detectives have not released further details about the victim or the subjects involved, but they said the victim’s family members have been notified.
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