MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Authorities are investigating a deputy-involved shooting in North Beach that left a teenage boy dead and led deputies to take a young man into custody.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office units responded to the scene of the incident along the 700 block of 81st Street, near Hawthorne Avenue, just south of Surfside, Friday morning.
MDSO officials said they responded to an apartment to serve a search warrant having to do with possession of firearms by convicted felons.
According to Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, deputies announced their presence, knocked multiple times and identified themselves before making entry into the residence.
Investigators said the 17-year-old subject walked out of his bedroom while holding a handgun with an extended magazine, and a deputy fired their firearm in response.
Area residents told 7News that they heard three or four gunshots around at around 6 a.m.
First responders rendered aid to the teen, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cordero-Stutz said deputies took the 18-year-old subject into custody without incident.
7Skyforce hovered above a heavy law enforcement presence near the apartment building.
A woman at the scene told 7News that she believes the two subjects are her sons.
“When I pulled up, this was going on. My 1-year-old daughter was in the police’s hands. I grabbed her; she was wet. They said they had two kids detained, which was my 13-year-old son and my 18-year-old. They homeboy, but he like my son. They in the back of the car,” she said.
The woman said she then approached deputies.
“I asked, ‘Could I talk to them?’ They told me no. So OK, cool, I’m asking them where my other son is. They’re telling me they don’t know. ‘Oh, he might be on the other side of the street in the back of the police car on the other side of the road,'” she said. “I go down there, my son ain’t down there. They’re telling me they don’t know what’s going on. ‘Oh, no, we don’t know. We don’t think so. Nobody’s been shot,’ but I’m telling her, ‘I see this on the news. I know the police officer shot somebody. This is my address.’ So I see the white thing. I say, I see the tent. I know what’s going on. ‘Just tell me if it’s my son.’ They have yet to come talk to me. tell me anything. So if they not telling y’all nothing, I can promise you I’m the mama. There’s my house down there, that they’re in front of. I ain’t heard nothing. They won’t even come face me yet.”
Investigators said both subjects are registered gang members and have an extensive criminal past involving firearms. Both were wearing ankle monitors at the time of the shooting.
Speaking with reporters hours later, Cordero-Stutz said the shooting underscores the dangers that deputies face on a daily basis.
“Search warrants are always one of our most dangerous actions that we and all law enforcement face. We do everything that we can to be proactive, to identify, to let people know. Part of the command is to say , ‘I’s the police, it is the sheriff’s office, and come out with your hands up where we can see it,'” she said. “Clearly, this individual, who was already in violation of the law and committing multiple felonies, chose to exit armed and confront our sheriff’s deputy.”
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has taken over the ongoing investigation.
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