MIAMI – Three men are facing attempted murder charges after Miami police said they were the perpetrators behind a robbery-turned-shootout outside of a Wynwood nightclub over the weekend.
According to police, the crime happened just before 2 a.m., Sunday, in a parking lot across the street from Brick nightclub. No one was hurt in the exchange of gunfire.
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Authorities identified the suspects as Quintin Price Charles, 21, of southwest Miami-Dade; Julian Maurice Reid, 21, of Miami; and Johmarrie Jaqayveis Taylor, 20, of southwest Miami-Dade.
An arrest report states that the three, all armed, approached a man who had just left Brick and was about to get in his BMW.
Police said one of the men told him, “You know what it is!” and demanded his money and jewelry; the victim gave one of the men his Cuban link chain.
The victim, police said, then grabbed one of the men’s guns and began shooting at them, leading them to return fire.
Another man, witnessing the robbery, yelled out “yo!” to the suspects, leading one of them to begin shooting at him with an assault rifle, the report states.
As that man tried to leave the parking lot in his Jeep, the original victim tried to get in his SUV, police said.
Police said the suspects tried taking off in a BMW of their own with a fourth person in the vehicle.
Taylor, police said, a passenger in the sedan, “held an assault rifle out of the window” as the second man blocked their exit with his Jeep.
The three men rammed the Jeep in an attempt to escape, police said.
Meanwhile, two Miami police officers working an off-duty detail at the nightclub heard the commotion as they broke up a fight and saw the men running away, police said.
The suspects eventually got into another Jeep and officers later detained them, the report states. Police had detained in upwards of a dozen people during the commotion.
In addition to attempted murder, Charles, Reid, and Taylor all face an armed robbery charge.
All three were being held without bond as of Monday afternoon.
According to a spokeswoman for Brick, the parking lots with access at Northwest 28 Street are not affiliated with the nightclub or the nightclub’s owners.