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COUNTY MIAMI-DADE, Fla. – A man is dead and another man and woman injured by gunshots that rang out in Southwest Miami-Dade around 2 a.m. on Thursday, police said.
Another woman was injured when her car crashed and overturned as she drove away from the shooting scene.
A group of people were standing outside a house near SW 247th Terrace and SW 113th Court when someone opened fire, Det said. Alvaro Zabaleta of the Miami-Dade Police Department.
After a 911 call, police arrived to find the woman on the ground suffering a gunshot wound, and she was transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical but stable condition. Her brother identified her as 22-year-old Najah McNear and said she was shot in the leg.
An off-duty correction officer was hand-scraped and treated on the spot, authorities say. The officer is a two-year veteran of the department, but his identity has not been released.
Homestead Hospital called the police to report that a man showed up with a gunshot wound. That man was operated on but died. He has also not yet been identified, but police said he was 24 years old.
After the shooting took place, people in the area fled the scene, including a woman who was driving so fast that she did not see a parked vehicle. Police say her Nissan Altima hit the parked car and overturned.
She was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries sustained in the crash.
In an exclusive interview with Local 10 News, McNear’s brother Miguel said his sister was simply in the crossfire.
She said she was shot in the leg. She was in the middle of the street calling for help, ”Miguel said.
He added that his sister was talking to some friends outside her home on SW 247th Terrace when someone pulled into a vehicle and started shooting at someone in a Chevy Malibu, who was still on the scene, riddled with bullets.
“A car just pulled up and started shooting another guy,” Miguel said. ‘I think a boy’s hand scraped. The other was shot in the neck. “
Miguel says his sister’s friend was driving the Altima that had rolled over.
“When they started firing, she drove off – you know, protect herself and the car just turned around,” he said.
A woman who lives nearby remembers hearing the gunfire from bed.
“I had just gotten to bed and heard three pops,” said Kathryn Ray.
No arrests have been made. Miami-Dade police placed more than a dozen evidence markers at the crime scene Thursday morning and are looking for witnesses and surveillance video.
“There was a gunfire, but of course we’re still trying to determine how this happened, who are the people involved,” Zabaleta said. “Anytime there is gunfire, it endangers the whole community.”
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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