MIAMI (WSVN) - A man has died after a shooting near a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami.
City of Miami Police responded to the scene in the area of Northwest 36th Street, near 31st Avenue, at around 7 p.m., Wednesday.
Family members identified the victim as 33-year-old Brandon Bennett.
“It’s very hard for us, you know,” said the victim’s cousin, Shay Ralph. “It ain’t really hit us right now because they just seen him yesterday. How can you take him from us just like that? He was so young.”
“How could you do that?” said his sister Melvina Bennett. “Now we gotta find a way to see how we gonna bury my brother. I just seen my brother yesterday, and it’s sad. It’s sad how you did him, whoever you is. It’s very sad. Nobody deserve this, nobody.”
When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered the victim with gunshot wounds, and not long after, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It was with his feet in the bus and his torso was outside the bus,” said Miami Police spokesperson Michael Vega.
7News cameras captured the victim’s body covered by tarp lying on the sidewalk next to the stationary bus.
Yvette Navaro was closing up at her office along Northwest 30th Avenue and 36th Street when the chaos ensued.
“We saw the bus going and then the cops following,” she said. “All this was swarmed with cops. It was crazy. All the cops covered the street, the bus stop right over there.”
Police said they do not know whether the shooting took place on the bus or at another location.
Investigators said they have interviewed the bus driver and are reviewing surveillance footage as they work out what had occurred.
Crime scene technicians were called in to collect evidence as police search for the shooter.
“We are looking for someone,” Vega said. “We don’t have that information at this time. That’s why we’re asking that anybody that saw something, as minute as it may seem, to please come forward and give us that information.”
Bennett’s family said he leaves behind a 16-year-old son, and they are pleading for the public’s help in finding the shooter.
If you have any information on this shooting, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.
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