A Miami-Dade deputy fatally shot 17-year-old Durrel Young within seconds of breaching a second-floor Miami Beach apartment during a firearms search warrant on July 24, and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office has now released body camera footage capturing the entire encounter. The footage shows the deputy shouting, “Let me see your hands,” before firing his gun roughly three times at Young, who investigators say was armed at the time. Young died inside the apartment at 785 81st Street.
According to the Miami Herald, investigators found Young's firearm next to his right leg after the shooting. The warrant that brought the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office Special Response Team to the apartment that morning was for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and deputies had been investigating both Young and 18-year-old Valentino Berry for gun-related offenses before obtaining it. Deputies took Berry into custody during the raid.
Per Local 10 News, the Special Response Team executed the warrant shortly before 6 a.m. that day, knocking and announcing their presence multiple times before forcing entry into the second-floor unit. Neighbors reported hearing shouting followed by several gunshots in rapid succession. Both Young and Berry were registered gang members, serving active probation terms and wearing electronic ankle monitors at the time.
A Teenager With a Documented Criminal History
A Teenager With a Documented Criminal History Young was arrested in Homestead in March 2025 and was a passenger in a red 2018 Honda Accord. He had previously faced charges in Florida City including attempted murder with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. The Miami Herald reports that both Young and Berry had extensive criminal records at the time of the raid.
No deputies or uninvolved community members were injured during the encounter, according to the Miami Herald. The firearm recovered next to Young's body was a handgun equipped with an extended ammunition magazine, a detail Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz highlighted when describing the immediate danger the entry team faced, according to CBS News. Cordero-Stutz said releasing the footage shows the public the sequence of events as they unfolded, per the Miami Herald.
A Mother Questions the Use of Force
Young's mother, Yvonne Young, told CBS News that her son had completed a juvenile boot camp program three to four months before the shooting and was scheduled to begin school on August 13, actively working to turn his life around. Warner questioned why deputies did not attempt non-lethal measures before shooting her son, the outlet reports.
Following the raid, Berry was booked into Miami-Dade's Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where federal authorities subsequently placed an immigration hold on him, according to Local 10's reporting. Berry had been listed alongside Young on the original firearms search warrant.
Independent Review and an Established Pattern
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting, a standard procedure in such cases, according to the Miami Herald.
In February 2026, Cordero-Stutz released body camera footage from a December 2025 SWAT warrant execution in Palmetto Estates that left an armed suspect dead, according to Police1, which reported that Cordero-Stutz has argued the public has a right to view high-profile police encounters. Cordero-Stutz was elected in November 2024 as Miami-Dade County's first sheriff since the 1960s, taking office in January 2025 when the former Miami-Dade Police Department transitioned into the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, according to Florida Politics.
Family Plans to Bring Young Home
Young's family has set up a community fundraiser through GoFundMe to help his mother cover the cost of transporting his body to South Carolina for burial and to help the family relocate from their Miami Beach residence, noting that Young's extended family lives in South Carolina.
