MIAMI – A 24-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after he shot at a man who was getting into a car near an elementary school in Miami, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, the incident occurred around 5:20 p.m. in the 3400 block of Northwest Second Avenue near the Centner Academy Elementary School.
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City of Miami police said the victim and his girlfriend were getting into their car, which was parked on the east side of Northwest Second Avenue when a scooter closely passed by.
The man told police that he yelled toward the people on the scooter, “What’s your problem!”
Police said the scooter then stopped and the driver and passenger got off of it.
According to the report, the victim told officers that the passenger told him, “We didn’t do nothing to you!” and the driver, later identified as Evan Andrew Flores, pulled out a gun and pointed it at the victim’s face.
“What’s up now n****. What’s up now?” Flores said to the victim, according to the report.
Police said the victim initially thought the gun was fake and turned around to walk back to his car.
But the victim said he then heard the sound of one gunshot followed by three more consecutive gunshots.
According to the report, the victim then ran toward his girlfriend and pushed her head down to avoid the gunfire.
The victim told officers the scooter passenger appeared to be just as surprised as him when the shots were fired, and he then fled the scene.
The passenger was later located and corroborated the victim’s account of the shooting, authorities said.
Flores was arrested on charges of attempted murder, display of a firearm while committing a felony, exhibition of a firearm on school property and unlawful discharge of a firearm in a public place.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Flores was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond.