MIAMI – Police have made an arrest in a Miami Beach shooting that left a person in a coma.
Ranier Figueroa has been charged with tried homicide and armed theft. The 21-year-old is being held with no bond.
The theft occurred in the early morning hours of July 21 alongside the 1000 block of 8 Street.
Police say the 25-year-old sufferer and a buddy had been sitting outdoors his condo constructing when the gunman demanded cash, then shot him in the torso.
The robber took off with $1 and a pockets belonging to the buddy.
The sufferer, who was visiting from Argentina, wasp positioned in a medically-induced coma.
“He is intubated, sedated in a coma, fighting for his life. We thought in the last 24 hours he was going to die,” stated Fernando Gallardo, the sufferer’s father. “Please have empathy for us, we need justice”
