At least two people have been killed and an estimated 20 to 25 others injured in a shooting in Miami early Sunday after police said three people “began shooting indiscriminately” into a crowd waiting outside a concert.
The shooting took place just after midnight outside the El Mula Banquet Hall in Northwest Miami-Dade, according to a statement from police, as the hall hosted a Memorial Day Weekend album release party featuring performances from local rappers.
As some concert-goers stood outside the venue, a white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up and three unidentified people with assault rifles and handguns opened fire on the crowd, police said.
Eight of the injured were transported to Miami-Dade and Broward hospitals by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, police spokesman Detective Angel Rodriguez told The Miami Herald, while 12 others were “self transported” to hospitals in the area.
Miami-Dade Police Department Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez III decried the shooting as “another targeted and cowardly act of gun violence” in a statement posted to Twitter. “These are cold blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice,” he wrote. “My deepest condolences to the family of the victims.”
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The shooting took place just after midnight outside the El Mula Banquet Hall in Northwest Miami-Dade, according to a statement from police, as the hall hosted a Memorial Day Weekend album release party featuring performances from local rappers.
As some concert-goers stood outside the venue, a white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up and three unidentified people with assault rifles and handguns opened fire on the crowd, police said.
Eight of the injured were transported to Miami-Dade and Broward hospitals by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, police spokesman Detective Angel Rodriguez told The Miami Herald, while 12 others were “self transported” to hospitals in the area.
Miami-Dade Police Department Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez III decried the shooting as “another targeted and cowardly act of gun violence” in a statement posted to Twitter. “These are cold blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice,” he wrote. “My deepest condolences to the family of the victims.”
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The director of the Miami-Dade Police Department described the shooting as a “targeted and cowardly act.”
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