MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Two died after they were wounded in a shooting on Friday at an apartment complex in Miami-Dade County’s Gladeview neighborhood, police said.
Officers with the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Northside District responded to the Lincoln Fields Apartments at the corner of Northwest 20th Avenue and Northwest 64th Street.
Officers found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead, police said.
A woman who was also injured in the shooting turned up at JMH’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor also pronounced her dead, police said.
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One man was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital s Ryder Trauma Center with a gunshot wound.
Around the same time, a third victim who was also involved in the incident arrived at North Shore Hospital with gunshot wounds, and was transferred to Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.
No other information was immediately known.
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Miami criminologist worries about rise in violence during coronavirus pandemic
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MIAMI – A renowned criminologist with the University of Miami said Tuesday the coronavirus pandemic is mostly to blame for a rise in violent crime in Miami-Dade County.
Alexis Piquero, the chair of the sociology department at UM, said there was a nationwide increase in violent crime during 2020 that we are already seeing spilling into 2021.
Doctors dealing with the pandemic had to treat the 14 victims of two shootings on Sunday. There were eight injured at a basketball court and six injured outside of a nightclub.
“We are starting off 2021 in a fashion that makes me very uncomfortable not just as a criminologist, but also as a citizen,” Piquero said.