An 11-year-old was shot, along with 14 other people, in a shooting that broke out at a Miami nightclub early Sunday morning, according to various reports.
Drinks were flowing and music was pumping, according to a vivid report from the Miami Herald, when suddenly gun shots rang out. Witnesses told the paper they heard at least dozens if not more than 100 shots fired in the packed strip mall club.
Miami authorities told The Associated Press that when local police and rescue crews arrived at “The Spot” around 1 in the morning, they discovered a chaotic crush of teens and adults reeling from the shooting, with wounded people both inside and outside the club. Victims included one wounded male who was unresponsive and not breathing when emergency responders arrived on the scene.
Some people were running, “people were screaming, people were saying they were shot,” Miami Fire Rescue Capt. Ignatius Carroll told the AP.
The 15 victims were between the ages of 11 and 25, according to USA Today. CBS Miami reports that seven minors were among the victims, including two boys and five girls, and that all were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital. A teenage boy remained hospitalized in serious condition Sunday afternoon, according to the Herald, although he apparently escaped without life-threatening injuries.
“The investigators are still interviewing witnesses. They’re going from hospital to hospital,” Miami Police Department Spokeswoman Frederica Burden told the AP.
Burden told the Herald police have yet to to determine who was inside the nightclub, how many shooters opened fire or the motive that spurred the incident,
“This has baffled everybody,”Burden said. “We are just trying to figure out what’s going on.”
“Was it a private party? Was it open to the public? That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” she added, noting that the police are trying to determine the nature of the new club, which apparently opened in the last few weeks, and why so many underage children were at the venue in the early hours of the morning.
“What was very surprising to the responders was that these were kids that were out at 1 o’clock in the morning in a club and this type of violence took place where a bunch of kids were gathering … it’s very disturbing to see that,” Carroll told the AP.
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