Florida incident comes week after another mass shooting at Miami-Dade banquet hall
A shooting outside a graduation party in Miami-Dade early Sunday left three people dead, including a corrections officer, authorities said.Five others were wounded when gunfire erupted around 2 a.m. as people were leaving the graduation party hosted at the Hookah Inn, near the intersection of Southwest 104th Street and 109th Court, WPLG reported.
"Our community was again painfully struck by gun violence overnight," Alfredo "Freddy" Ramirez III, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, tweeted. "No one is immune, this shooting took the life of a correctional officer. We all have the responsibility to report these killers. My deepest condolences to those affected by this intentional act of violence."
Authorities said one or more vehicles pulled into the parking lot at the strip mall and someone inside one of the vehicles opened fire.
The Florida Department of Corrections identified one victim killed as corrections officer Tyleisha Taylor. She died after being transported to Jackson South Medical Center. She had worked at Dade Correctional Institution since January 2020.
"We are devastated to learn a member of our FDC family, Officer Taylor, was killed in a fatal shooting. Our prayers are with her family as they navigate this unimaginable loss," Florida Secretary of Corrections Mark Inch said in a statement.
The two others killed were found dead in a vehicle that crashed into a wall at Miami-Dade College’s Kendall Campus while fleeing the shooting, Miami-Dade Police public information officer Angel Rodriguez confirmed to Fox News. It’s unclear how the two men died. Investigators believe the two men were somehow involved in the shooting, but Rodriguez said it is too early to call them suspects. A firearm was found inside the vehicle, he said.
"Every weekend, it's the same thing. We have to band together," Ramirez added at a press conference. "There's a lot of work to do. We have to come together as a community and make this stop."
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she was "horrified" by this latest shooting.
Miami-Dade shooting outside graduation party leaves 3 dead, including Florida corrections officer
A shooting outside a graduation party in Miami-Dade early Sunday left three people dead, including a corrections officer, and at least five others wounded, authorities said.
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