SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A security guard has been transported to the hospital after he was shot on the job outside of an apartment complex in Southwest Miami-Dade.
Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue crews responded to the Garden Walk Apartments, located in the area of Southwest 112th Avenue and 214th Street, at approximately 1:45 a.m., Tuesday.
The man was transported to Jackson South Medical Center in critical but stable condition.
Anthony, another security guard working when the incident occurred, said he and the victim were attempting to chase away two trespassers that had jumped the fence of the gated community.
“We did our job. Two people had came in the building, and we chased ’em out of the building,” said Anthony. “One of the perps came back. By the time I made it back to my post, my partner was going around and checking the other side of the building. By the time he got down halfway through the parking lot, the perp came back, and he shot him three times. I tried to chase after them, but I wasn’t fast enough.”
Anthony said he heard about 10 shots fired total.
“My heart just dropped, man,” said Anthony. “I’m just glad that I got to him before anything else happened. It’s a shock at the moment.”
Anthony said the victim had been working as a security guard at the apartment complex for about three weeks.
“It’s an ongoing thing over here, man,” said Anthony. “Every week it’s something different. They come in here, they break into cars. They steal people’s phones. They rob people at gunpoint. This time it just escalated to my partner getting shot. We try to do our best, but there’s only so much we can do.”
The shooting comes around the same time Miami-Dade Police officers participated in a scheduled high-visibility patrol.
A high number of recent shootings in the area led to the event, created to encourage people to come forward with information about crimes in the neighborhood.
“At the end of the day, right is right and wrong is wrong. It don’t matter what situation anybody in, it don’t matter what they going through,” said Anthony. “At the end of the day, to try to take a life, man, that ain’t right by nobody’s standards, none whatsoever.”
Investigators said they do not have a description of the shooter.
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