MIAMI (WSVN) - A man has been killed after an officer-involved shooting in the City of Miami.
City of Miami Police officers and Fire Rescue crews were dispatched to the area of the 2700 block of Northwest South River Drive just after 6:30 p.m., Tuesday.
“Our tactical robbery detectives began investigating a string of robberies, and just yesterday, they got a tip that, perhaps, this person may have been at the Paradise Trailer Park,” Miami Police spokesperson Kenia Fallat said.
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One subject, identified as 51-year-old Juan Carlos Pena-Noda, was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with a gunshot wound, where he would succumb to his injuries.
According to police, officers were investigating six armed robberies in the southern end of Miami over an eight-day period. Their investigation led them to a mobile home park, Tuesday afternoon.
“Between Feb. 8 and today, we’ve had a rash of robberies in the south end of the City of Miami, particularly the Flagami area,” City of Miami Deputy Police Chief Ronald Papier said. “These were armed robberies. A few of them were with a flare gun, and the last several were with a firearm. Two of them were [Tuesday].”
According to police, a Metro PCS store was targeted on Feb. 8, and two more cellphone stores were targeted over the next few days. Then, on Sunday afternoon, a Gordon Food Service Store along West Flagler Street was robbed.
On Tuesday, a laundromat along Northwest 27th Avenue was robbed just before 1 a.m., and another robbery occurred at Sarah’s Furniture on Northwest 20th Street near 24th Court.
Police said two officers fired at the subject, and he was shot outside of the mobile home park.
“The officers did immediately render first aid after shooting him, and there is a firearm on the scene,” Papier said.
Police said they have not confirmed Pena-Noda was behind the string of armed robberies throughout the city.
“We’re also looking at other cases that are open to see indeed if it matches that description, as well,” Fallat said.
No officers were injured in the shooting.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is handling the investigation into the shooting, which is protocol whenever an officer fires their weapon.
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