FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police are investigating a shooting that left one man hospitalized in Fort Lauderdale Thursday morning.
It happened just before 9 a.m. at an auto body shop located near the 900 NW 10th Terrace.
Fort Lauderdale police said crews arrived to find a man suffering from injuries.
Authorities said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported the man to Broward Health Medical Center, where he suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the shooter remained at the scene and was detained for questioning.
Paul Williams, who works in the area, told Local 10 News that shortly after arriving to work, he noticed two men fighting outside a maintenance bay when one man shot the other.
“I hear boom, boom, boom, and then now the police came,” he said. “This place is so horrible right now with these people. What I’m seeing around here, I never see it before.”
Sky 10 flew over the scene where there was a heavy police presence in the area and detectives were seen speaking with one man outside of the body shop.
Williams says in the 27 years that he’s worked in Fort Lauderdale, he’s never seen violence like this outside his shop.
“People are going to die around here. Every day, it’s looting and shooting around here and all types of problems,” he said. “Around here, life is like a waste, man. People don’t care.”
Local 10 News reporter Christina Vazquez spoke with Rafi Morschalin, who said that he wasn’t surprised to hear about the shooting due to the crime rate in the area. +
“This area is really crazy that things like that happen all the time here,” he said.
Authorities confirmed Thursday afternoon that the shooter was cooperating with the investigation and no arrests have been made at this time.
Police said preliminary investigation appears as though the shooter was defending himself when the incident occurred.
A motive for the shooting remains unclear.
After hearing about these community concerns, Local 10 News received public crime data for 900 NW 10th Terrace for the past year from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
You can read the crime-related data in the chart below.
Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to call the Fort Lauderdale Police Department at (954) 828-5700.