NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A workplace dispute took a terrifying turn when shots were fired outside a Family Dollar in Northwest Miami-Dade.
The shooting took place at the store, located near Northwest 69th Terrace and 17th Avenue, early Tuesday morning.
“I just want all my babies to be OK,” said Leslie Taylor, whose granddaughter was shot at. “This is kind of very stressful. This don’t make no sense.”
Miami-Dade Police said the shooting started after a store manager fired an employee.
The employee left the store and returned with a group of people. At least one of them fired a gun, authorities said.
“That’s premeditated,” Taylor said. “She had time to think about what she was doing. She left here and brought those guys back with her, with a gun.”
Police took one person into custody.
Before being cuffed and taken into custody, Jametrius Burkes spoke to 7News.
“The manager had his gun on him and he was flirting with us, telling me all types of things that I felt like made me very fearful of my life,” said Burkes.
He said he came back to the store after the manager fired his girlfriend.
“I saw the manager flirting with his gun when I came back to the establishment to get my girlfriend,” said Burkes. “I didn’t see anybody fire at them. I was tussling with the manager because he had a gun on him the whole time when I was trying to talk to him, let him know, ‘Hey, man, it’s not cool to threaten people’s lives.'”
Burkes said the store manager’s wife was the first person who started shooting.
Although police gave a different story and said after the employee was fired, she came back with another person and that person fired a gun at the manager. That’s when his wife then fired back.
Taylor said shortly after the shooting, her granddaughter, the store manager’s wife, took matters into her own hands.
“She had to protect her husband,” Taylor said. “They both got registered guns, and when the shootout ensued and she thought her husband was gonna be injured, she fired the gun.”
Taylor said her granddaughter also hit the alleged gunman with her car.
As police continue to investigate, Taylor said she is glad her granddaughter and her husband were not hurt.
“My granddaughter’s only 22,” she said. “What she know ’bout a gun? What she know about protecting her and her family? This is ridiculous.”
Crime scene tape closed off the store’s parking lot as police investigated.
No injuries were reported.
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