Security video reveals that one of the spring break shootings in Miami was a premeditated homicide

Following the decision by the Miami Beach authorities to declare a state of emergency this Sunday due to two shootings that left victims in a city overrun by thousands of tourists for the so-called “break”spring break“, a video of a security camera that captured one of the events. And that makes it clear, that anything but a miss, that attack is clearly premeditated murder.

As evidenced by footage that has gone viral from footage captured in the area, the shooting doesn’t appear to have anything to do with a lack of control in the context of American spring break students, but rather appears to a calculated executionTO.

The local Police Headquarters reported the incident checked in at 3:29 this sundaywhen police officers heard gunfire near Eleventh Street and Ocean Drive.

Upon arrival at the scene, the police foundn man with gunshot wounds. “He was transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit, where died after. A second victim was injured, but she was treated and released at the scene,” police said.

A man was later 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 He faced charges of first-degree murder..

Subject’s weapon has been recovered near the accident scene, and also found a second pistol, from the victim.

The event was caught on site security cameras and shows how in the middle of a crowd of people walking down the street, the aggressor pounces on his victim -who was walking in the opposite direction-, points him directly and shoot more than ten times against him, who remains stretched out and – given the sequence and proximity of the attack – incredibly dying.

The footage reveals that whatever decisions led him to do so, the killer had chosen his victim and executed him when he crossed They were not shots at a crowd which, at that size and distance, would have produced at least another number of wounded.

The pictures also showed how a dozen people escaped, terrified at the first detonation. And the aggressor keeps aiming at his target, lying on the groundwho finish with several more hits.

According to the local newspaper Miami Herald, although the images are eloquent, the security forces have ensured that They are investigating the motive for the murder. and deemed it an “accident selective and isolated“. A subtlety of police jargon to talk about a crime with an identified target.

Curfew in Miami

Given the two shootings – the other took place on Friday evening, at the intersection of 7 and Ocean Drive – the Miami government has decided to decree a “state of emergency” in the face of the overflows they attribute to Spring Break, the student recreation WE.

The situation, which is repeated every time with more episodes of violence year after year, has led the local authorities to settle down a curfew “to mitigate dangerous and illegal behavior” until 6 on Monday.

During a special meeting of the Miami Beach Commission on Monday. it will be discussed whether the restrictions will be maintained after that day, a statement read.

The alarming reaction of the authorities is not new. In March 2022 they made the same decision before another series of shootings, this time without fatalities.