MIAMI – Miami police arrested a convicted felon on attempted murder and gun charges Sunday after they said he shot a man four times during a dispute in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood.
According to police, the shooting happened just before 3 a.m. in the 900 block of Southwest Fourth Street.
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Police said Emanuel Dany Soroa, 31, of Little Haiti, went up to the victim, asked him “are you Brady?” then pulled out a gun and shot him four times, in the buttocks and leg, after the dispute escalated.
One witness said she saw the victim pull out a gun after feeling threatened by Soroa.
Police went to the scene after getting a ShotSpotter alert and witnesses pointed out Soroa, along with a co-defendant, Jean Carlo Mendoza, trying to leave in an SUV, an arrest report states.
Police followed and stopped the SUV and Mendoza, 33, fled and tossed one of two guns investigators found. The arrest report states that an officer detained Soroa, while a witness tackled Mendoza until officers arrived.
The arrest report states that Mendoza declined to speak with officers, while Soroa claimed the victim had a gun — and said nothing further.
Soroa was previously convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and drug charges in Miami-Dade County, according to court records.
Soroa was being held without bond in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of attempted murder and felon in possession of a firearm.
Mendoza was being held on a $3,000 bond on charges of evidence tampering, fleeing and eluding police and resisting an officer without violence.