DORAL, FLA. (WSVN) - A mother is making a painful plea to help find the person responsible for her daughter’s death.
Just over a year and a half has passed and the family of 17-year-old Gabriela Aldana still has no answers.
Aldana was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Hookah Palace in Southwest Miami-Dade on May 24, 2019.
Detectives said a group of people were standing outside when a car pulled up and someone started firing shots.
Police do not believe Aldana, who was with her friends in that group, was the intended target of the shooter.
“It was a long-standing dispute between two people that were completely unrelated to her,” said Miami-Dade Police detective Jessica Alvarez.
Aldana’s mother, Susana Martinez Gispert, is now pleading for help.
“I didn’t have any other kids,” she said. “That’s why my whole life was her. My whole life was her. I don’t have a life anymore.”
Detectives said dozens of people were at the plaza when the shooting unfolded, so there are people who know what happened.
“There were many people there,” Alvarez said. “Many saw what transpired and we’re just trying to find someone, anyone, that can give us a factual statement as to what occurred that night.”
A tip leading to an arrest could award the tipster $15,000.
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