Two people died and seven were injured Saturday morning shooting in a bar in Milan a suburb of Miamiafter an argument between customers which led one of them to pull out a gun and start shooting.
The police reported that the brawl took place at Bar Martini in the area CityPlace Doral Shopping Center, in Doral (state of Florida) around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. When a security guard intervened, one of the people involved in the argument he pulled out a gun and killed himsaid Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta.
Two Doral police officers, who were also providing security at the scene, began exchanging gunfire with the attacker one of them ended up mortally wounding him.
One of the officers, with four years of service, was shot in the leg and applied a tourniquet himself, Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez told reporters. “Even after discharging his weapon, the extensive training our police officers went through is the reason the officer is still alive today,” Lopez emphasized.
According to authorities, six other people were injured by gunfire – five men and one woman.
The injured police officer has already been released from the hospital, WTVJ-TV reported. The six injured remain hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, Zabaleta said.
The shopping center has multiple uses and, in addition to having numerous luxury shops, some of them also have departments that function as private homes. A neighbor of one of them told WPLG-TV he heard a hail of bullets.
“About 3:15 or 3:30 in the morning I initially heard three shots,” William Suedois said. “I didn’t really know where they came from. I thought it was fireworks. Then I heard another 10 or 15, very loud, very fast. “It was very, very scary,” he added, still shocked by the unusual early morning.
Lopez noted that the Florida Department of Law is already investigating the incident and that Miami-Dade police are investigating the two deaths. The attacker and the deceased security guard were not identified and investigators said they did not yet know what sparked the brawl inside the bar.
Mall managers said in a statement that they had put additional security measures in place, while bar owners said they were already cooperating with authorities and conducting their own investigations.
“We will feel this trauma deeply for a long time and we are here for our community now and always,” read the statement that the Martini’s owners posted on their Instagram account.
Source: Clarin
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