MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A man has died from his injuries after being shot multiple times early Tuesday morning in Miami-Dade County’s Goulds neighborhood, authorities confirmed.
According to Detective Andre Martin, who is also a spokesman for the police department, officers responded to the area of Southwest 119th Avenue and 224th Street around 2:40 a.m. after receiving a ShotSpotter alert.
He said officers found a man at the scene suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The victim was later identified by police as 29-year-old James Darnell Jerome Dukes.
“The victim, James Darnell Jerome Dukes, lives at this residence and was outside with some friends and acquaintances when an unknown male subject arrived here on scene, produced a firearm, fired multiple shots in Mr. Dukes’ direction and then fled the scene on foot,” Martin said.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the victim to Jackson South Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Patricia Dean, who went to the scene later in the morning, told reporters that she was asleep when her daughter called her to tell her Dukes had just been shot.
“She told me that Duke got shot. She said, ‘He got shot,’ and she was just screaming and yelling,” Dean said. “I didn’t understand what else she was saying, so when I got up, got dressed for work, I came to see but it was all roped off, so I just went on to work, so I don’t really know what’s going on.”
The relationship between Dean’s daughter and Dukes was not immediately clear.
A motive for the shooting is unclear.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Detective D. McGahee at 305-471-2400. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest.