2 dead, at least 20 injured in Florida club shooting
Shortly after midnight, a white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up to the El Mula Banquet Hall near Hialeah.
That’s when three people “stepped out of the vehicle with assault rifles and handguns and started firing indiscriminately into the crowd,” Ramirez said.
“The result is 20 to 25 victims with gunshot injury wounds, and two deceased on the scene.”
The wounded were taken to various hospitals in the area. At least one of those hospitalized is in critical condition, police said.
Some of the shooting victims’ loved ones wait outside the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Sunday.
The banquet hall and billiards club had been rented out for a concert, Ramirez said.
Angelica Green said both her son and her nephew were among those shot.
Her son was shot once in the abdomen area and is in stable condition after surgery, Green said Sunday.
“However, my nephew was shot four times,” she said, including once in the abdomen area and three times in the leg.
Angelica Green said her son and nephew hadn’t made it into the club when they were shot.
Green said her son is her only child.
“He’s not a statistic. He’s a graduate from college last year. So he’s educated. He was going out with his educated cousin to just celebrate the weekend, and they had not made it into the club as of yet,” she said.
“They said that some guys, three guys that they noticed … they just started shooting … for whatever reason, we don’t know.”
Miami-Dade police investigate Sunday near shell case markers on the ground.
The Miami-Dade Police Department is asking anyone with information about the shooters or their whereabouts to contact authorities.
“We need our county to step up with information,” Ramirez said.
“This type of gun violence has to stop. Every weekend, it’s the same thing. This is targeted. This is definitely not random,” said Ramirez.
That mass shooting took place in Miami’s Wynwood district late Friday night.
Police said they’re looking for a silver Nissan Maxima that may have been involved in that shooting.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday offered his condolences to the victims of those attacked in the latest shooting.
“We are working with local authorities to bring justice to the perpetrators.”
CNN’s Amanda Jackson, Alta Spells, Natasha Chen and Kevin Conlon contributed to this report.
