Following the decision of the Miami Beach authorities to declare a state of emergency this Sunday due to two shootings with fatalities in a city invaded by thousands of tourists due to the so-called "
Spring Break
" break, a video of
a security camera that captured one of the events
.
And that makes it clear that far from a lost shooting, this attack is
clearly a premeditated homicide
.
As can be seen in the footage that went viral from the film records captured in the area, the shooting does not seem to have to do with a lack of control in the context of the American spring break students, but rather seems like a calculated
execution
.
The local Police Department reported that the incident
occurred at 3:29 p.m. this Sunday
, when police officers heard shots near Eleventh Street and Ocean Drive.
Upon arrival at the scene, the police found a
man with gunshot wounds
.
He “was transferred to the Ryder Trauma Unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital, where
he later died
.
A second victim was injured but she was treated and released at the scene,” police detailed.
A man was then arrested nearby after a foot chase near 12th and Washington Streets.
According to the police report, the perpetrator is a 24-year-old man from Fort Lauderdale, who was
facing first-degree murder charges
.
Murder with more than ten shots in Miami, in what was supposed to be a spring break shooting.
video capture
The subject's firearm was recovered
near the scene of the incident, and
a second handgun, belonging to the victim,
was also found .
The incident was captured by the security cameras of the place and shows how
in the middle of a crowd
of people walking down the street, the attacker rushes at his victim -who was walking in the opposite direction-, points directly at him and
shoots more than ten times
against him, who is left lying and -given the sequence and the proximity of the attack -incredibly dying.
The footage reveals that whatever decision led him to do that,
the killer had his victim chosen and executed him
when he crossed paths.
They were not shots at a crowd that, at that magnitude and distance, would have produced another number of, at least, injuries.
The images also showed how
a dozen people ran away
,
frightened by the first detonation
.
And the attacker continues to aim at his target, already
lying on the ground
, whom
he finishes off with several more shots
.
According to the local newspaper Miami Herald, despite the fact that the images are eloquent, the security forces assured that
they are investigating the motive for the murder
and considered that it was a "
selective and isolated
incident ."
A subtlety of police jargon to talk about a crime with an identified target.
Curfew in Miami
Given the two shootings - the other had been on Friday night, at the intersection of 7 and Ocean Drive - the Miami government decided to decree a "state of emergency" in the face of the overflows that they attribute to Spring Break, the student recess US.
The situation, which is repeated with more and more episodes of violence year after year, led local authorities to establish
a curfew
"to mitigate dangerous and illegal behavior"
until 6 in the morning on Monday
.
During a special meeting of the Miami Beach Commission on Monday.
it will be discussed whether the restrictions would be maintained after that day, it was reported in a statement.
In March 2022, Miami had also imposed a curfew against shootings during the spring break.
Photo Reuters
The alarming reaction of the authorities is not new.
In March 2022 they made the same decision before another series of shootings, that time, without fatalities.
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