A 17-year-old has been hospitalized in critical condition after sustaining gunshot wounds in SW Miami-Dade. The incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m., yesterday where police, were dispatched following a ShotSpotter alert. The alert pinpointed the disturbance at the 17900 block of SW 104th Avenue, an area now taped off by crime scene investigators sifting through the evening's chaos, as reported by both NBC Miami and WSVN.
Responding to the alert, officials arrived on the scene to discover the wounded teen. The young man, whose identity remains undisclosed, was found with symptoms that left little doubt to first responders: the sharp puncture of bullets breaking skin, tearing through muscle, lodging in bones. The precise series of events leading up to the shooting, have not been disclosed by law enforcement as of yet.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue swiftly intervened, transporting the teenager to Jackson South Medical Center. While the teen fights for his life, no further details about his condition, identity, or the circumstances of the shooting have been released. "Officials have not yet released any additional details as to the teen's condition, his identity, or what events led up to the shooting," states the report from NBC Miami.
The community now faces the reverberations of such an act, an all too frequent echo in American cities from coast to coast. WSVN notes the absence of details on what precipitated the shooting. Investigators are presumably piecing together the circumstances, as those close to the victim hold hope in a balance, and a neighborhood grapples with the gun violence.
