A shooting that took place early Saturday morning in the neighborhood of Little Havana in Miami left two people dead and two others hospitalized in what authorities are describing as a suspected case of domestic violence.
According to Miami Police, officers responded around 6:30 a.m. to the corner of Northwest 17th Avenue and Third Street, near the LoanDepot Park stadium, after receiving reports of gunfire in the area.
Upon arriving at the scene, the officers found three adults with gunshot wounds and a 13-year-old girl with minor lacerations to the head.
Miami Fire Rescue declared two of the adult shooting victims dead at the scene: a man and a woman whose identities have not been disclosed.
A third man, aged 32, was transported in critical condition to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the primary trauma center in South Florida.
The minor was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Emergency personnel specified that she had "a laceration from being struck in some way, not with a knife."
The official Kenia Fallat, spokesperson for the Miami Police, confirmed that "the circumstances surrounding the incident appear to be related to domestic violence."
In the scene, the agents handcuffed a man and detained him at the back of a patrol car, while orange cones and crime scene tape blocked the entrance to a house on the corner. However, at the time of the reports, no arrests had been made and the investigation remained ongoing.
This type of tragedy is not new in Miami-Dade. In June of this year, four members of a family were found dead in Doral in a case that shocked the community. In April, a man was arrested accused of killing his wife and stepson in the same area. And at the beginning of the year, a Cuban mother and daughter were shot dead in Greenacres in an apparent family murder-suicide.
The police requested that anyone with information about this case call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers anonymously at 305-471-8477.
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