Early Tuesday morning, Miami-Dade Police responded to a Brownsville crime scene. They found two victims of a drive-by shooting and 88 bullet casings left for homicide detectives to clean up.
That same day, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners met to discuss a multimillion-dollar gun violence prevention plan created by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava s office.
Only a day earlier, violence also erupted in South Dade, as officers rushed to respond to a domestic-related murder-suicide at an apartment complex in Homestead. Desmond Owens, 26-year-old victim of the El Mula Banquet Hall shooting.(Courtesy of the Owens Family)
The urgency to deploy $7.2 million through the mayorâs Peace and Prosperity Plan comes while Miami has been overwhelmed by bloodbaths for nearly two consecutive weeks, leaving at least 13 people dead and more than 40 injured.
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