MIAMI SPRINGS – The massive police operation taking place in Miami Springs is connected to the Monday evening shooting that left a Miami-Dade officer in essential situation.
According to MDPD Director Freddy Ramirez, the division’s Special Response Team was executing a search warrant at a fancy in the 100 block of Fairway Drive when gunfire broke out.
The suspect, who was reportedly armed with an AK-47, was fatally shot.
Ramirez stated all officers, in addition to residents in the complicated, are protected.
The director confirmed this case is a component of a bigger theft investigation out of Broward County – one which finally led to officer Cesar Echaverry being shot in Liberty City.
According to police, Robbery Intervention Detail detectives noticed a automobile that was concerned in an armed theft in the world of NW 62 Street and NW 17 Avenue.
They pulled the driving force over however he refused to get out of the automobile, in accordance to CBS4 news associate The Miami Herald.
In an try to escape, the driving force sped off, placing the detectives’ autos.
The officers gave chase. It got here to an finish close to NW 62nd Street and tenth Avenue in Liberty City when the suspect crashed right into a automobile.
The suspect then bailed out of the automobile.
“An altercation ensued and shots were fired resulting in both the officer and subject shot,” in accordance to a police press launch.
Echaverry was shot in the pinnacle, whereas one of the suspects, who a supply later recognized as 32-year-old Jeremy Willie Horton, was killed.
Echaverry stays in essential situation in the hospital.
Stay with CBSMiami.com for updates on this growing story.
