MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – One person has died following a police-involved shooting in northwest Miami-Dade, authorities confirmed.
The shooting occurred early Thursday morning at a home in the area of Northwest 102nd Street and 14th Avenue.
According to Miami-Dade police, a 911 call was received from someone at the home who said the 22-year-old suspect was armed with a gun and making threats to relatives.
Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, who is also a spokesman for the police department, said in a news release that responding officers were met at the home by two relatives who said the man was barricaded inside the home.
The police department’s Special Response Team and negotiators were then summoned to the scene.
A Local 10 News crew was at the scene as police ordered the suspect to come out of the home with his hands up.
Police eventually used a battering ram to smash in a window of the home.
“After several hours of unsuccessful attempts to establish a line of communication with the individual, the Special Response Team initiated their tactical strategies,” Zabaleta said in the news release. “A confrontation with the subject ensued and shots were fired, fatally striking the subject.”
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting, which is standard protocol for police-involved shootings in the state.
The suspect’s identity has not yet been released.