MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 15-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in northwest Miami-Dade County, police said.
The shooting took place at about 6:15 p.m. as Calixto Logan was walking in the area of Northwest 105th Street and Northwest Sixth Avenue.
Logan, who was shot several times, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses told police that someone inside a dark-colored vehicle opened fire, striking the teen repeatedly.
"He wasn't able to talk," neighbor Jeanette Aviles said. "All he did was just look at me like, 'Help me, help me,' and we couldn't really do anything. I just talked to him and told him keep his eyes open, stay with us (and) don't go. That was about it."
Witnesses told Local 10 News that Logan was walking home from the corner gas stations with his two female relatives when the shooting happened.
Surveillance video from the gas station shows him taking a seat, at times appearing anxious, while the women shopped.
He was fatally shot less than four minutes later.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho posted on Twitter early Wednesday, calling the killing "unacceptable cowardice."
"A precious life in our community, stolen at age 15," Carvalho tweeted. "Together we must refuse to allow the murders of our children to become the new normal."
Logan attended Jan Mann Opportunity School in Miami Gardens, a facility run by Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
A precious life in our community, stolen at age 15. Together we must refuse to allow the murders of our children to become the new normal.
— Alberto M. Carvalho (@MiamiSup) February 1, 2017
Tragedy strikes our community again with teenager killed in drive-by shooting. Unacceptable cowardice. Silence is complicit. #EnoughIsEnough
— Alberto M. Carvalho (@MiamiSup) February 1, 2017
