MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Gardens police and Miami-Dade Schools Police responded to North Gardens High School in Miami Gardens just before 2 p.m. Wednesday in reference to shots being fired.
Police did not confirm whether the shooting happened inside or outside of the charter school, which is located in a shopping plaza in the 4600 block of Northwest 183rd Street. However, Sky 10 was above the scene as someone was taken out of the school on a stretcher.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed that two people were injured, an adult and a child.
Both were rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital as trauma alerts, one by ambulance and the other by helicopter, according to MDFR.
As for the shooter, Local 10 News reporter Roy Ramos was told they took off in a car, but they didn’t get far. The car was located near Top Golf in the area of Northwest 179th Street and Second Avenue.
The blue Kia could been seen with bullet holes in it.
A witness described the shooting to Local 10 News, which forced the school into a lockdown.
“It sound like a machine gun,” said Adrian Rivero. “I was coming down and I heard the shots.”
The subjects involved in the shooting were taken into custody. The situation was very concerning to parents whose children were inside the school during the lockdown.
“My heart dropped,” said one parent. “How can you not tell a parent if it is their child that has been shot?”
Steadman Stahl is the president of the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, and he believes the situation could have been much worse.
“It was crazy, something you see out of the movies,” he said. “You have someone pull up in front of a high school, shooting at kids.”
Stahl said the people in the blue Kia were hanging out of a window, shooting at police. He said it was an off-duty Miami Gardens police officer who was working at the school that followed the suspects.