Miami police have their hands full after a man turned up at Jackson Memorial Hospital riddled with bullet wounds, authorities said. The victim arrived at the health facility around 2:30 a.m. Monday, launching an investigation into a shooting incident that may have taken place near Miami Northwestern Senior High School.
Officers were summoned to the hospital after the injured man arrived, and they are now piecing together the possibility that his wounds are connected to a shooting detected by a ShotSpotter alert near the intersection of Northwest 12th Avenue and 71st Street Local10 News reported, Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the police department, said the victim is listed in stable condition but details regarding the circumstances of the shooting were scant at best.
Uncertainty shrouds whether the man, found in a black Kia Stringer with multiple bullet holes, had driven himself to the hospital, which is situated about three miles from the site of the shooting according to a Miami Herald article. The car, a dark-colored sedan featuring several bullet holes on the back driver's side door and window, was showcased in footage from 7News, underlining the violence of the events that unfolded that early morning.
While the police continue their investigation into these violent events, the connection between the ShotSpotter's alert and the man's gunshot wounds remains a primary focus and though no further information has been released Delva confirmed detectives are hard at work trying to confirm the link between the two incidents.
