NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A woman has been injured after being shot while driving in Northwest Miami-Dade months after another unsolved shooting along the same stretch of Interstate 95.
According to officials, the woman was traveling south on the interstate near Northwest 62nd Street when she heard gunshots just after 4 a.m., Wednesday.
The driver’s gray Chevrolet Malibu sedan came to a stop near Northwest 17th Avenue and 62nd Terrace when she noticed bullet holes in both the driver and passenger side window, as well as the windshield.
7News cameras captured the woman holding a towel in her hand and having her arm treated by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
It remains unclear if the woman’s hand was injured as a result of being shot or by broken glass.
She’s the second person shot by gunfire on the same stretch of I-95 where 22-year-old Melissa Gonzalez was shot and killed in January.
Gonzalez was driving with her boyfriend to visit her grandmother in the hospital when a bullet flew into her car and struck her.
She was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center but didn’t survive.
Sheilla Nunez, Gonzalez’s mother, cannot believe there was another shooting on I-95 on Wednesday.
“I cannot live with this pain,” she said. “It is killing me. Thank God the other victim survived because every life lost is painful for the family.”
Nunez later made a plea to the public following her daughter’s death.
“If you know something, please. You can call the police, you can call to me, you can call any person, please,” she said through sobs.
In that case, police said they were looking for a dark four-door sedan with dark rims.
Florida Highway Patrol said the woman described the subject’s car as a dark-colored sedan as well.
Nunez hopes the cases are connected, so it gets her closer to finding her daughter’s killer.
“We cannot allow another shooting to happen on I-95,” Nunez said. “Precisely, near the same area where my daughter was murdered.”
No arrests have been made in either case.
No one was transported to the hospital following the shooting on Wednesday.
A tow truck has since arrived on scene and towed the bullet-riddled car away.
Miami-Dade Police and FHP led the on-scene investigation.
A reward up to $5,000 has been offered for any information leading to the arrest of Gonzalez’s killer.
If you have any information regarding the two shootings, call Miami-Dade Police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward.
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