MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – An armed guy was once shot by way of law enforcement officials in Miami-Dade County on Wednesday.
Not a long way away, a multi-vehicle crash was once additionally being investigated by way of police.
Officers showed past due Wednesday night time that the 2 scenes have been attached.
The capturing passed off alongside Northwest twenty fourth Avenue close to fortieth Street at roughly 7 p.m.
In video acquired by way of Local 10, officials can also be heard yelling “drop the gun” ahead of photographs have been fired.
According to police, the armed guy was once concerned in the auto coincidence and fled on foot, together with his gun, after the collision.
“The subject exits the vehicle armed and begins to flee on foot, across a park on 50th Street where children were playing,” stated Miami-Dade Police Public Information Officer Alvaro Zabaleta. “The officers immediately gave chase on foot, they gave him multiple verbal commands, shots were fired. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene and transported him to (Jackson Memorial Hospital) Ryder (Trauma Center) where he is listed in critical condition.”
Witness Jeffrey Owens instructed Local 10 News’ Christian De La Rosa that he was once on the park throughout from Brownsville Middle School when he noticed a person with a gun working from police down twenty fourth Avenue.
“We was out there playing basketball and we heard, ‘Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground,’” stated Owens. “He had a gun and he was running and police just shot him.”
While Sky 10 was once above the scene, it additionally noticed what seemed to were a violent multi-vehicle crash close to twenty fourth Avenue and fiftieth Street.
One automobile got here to a forestall in a entrance backyard after plowing via a fence.
Miami-Dade police arrange a large perimeter as detectives have been seen processing the scene.
Police have now not recognized the suspect or supplied any replace on his well being standing.
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