MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Local 10 News obtained surveillance video footage Monday showing the moments authorities said a 4-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet at a mobile home community in Miami-Dade County’s Tamiami neighborhood back in July.
According to an arrest report, 23-year-old Christopher Stiven Del Carpio was arrested on July 28 on charges of attempted second-degree murder, attempted felony murder, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and resisting an officer without violence.
The shooting was reported shortly before 9 p.m. on July 27 in the area of Southwest 127th Court and 12th Street, inside the University Lakes mobile home community.
Miami-Dade police said Del Carpio and several other people were socializing in the common area of one of the homes when he and a 37-year-old man got into a dispute which escalated into a physical confrontation.
Police said Del Carpio armed himself with a gun, at which time the man he had been fighting with and a 28-year-old woman retreated inside one of the units.
Police released additional surveillance video Monday showing the moment Del Carpio fired multiple rounds at the victims and into the unit.
The man and woman weren’t injured, but multiple bullets passed through the walls of the unit into a second unit, where the 4-year-old was with his family, authorities said.
Police confirmed that the boy was struck by one of the bullets on the left side of his torso and bullets also struck her car and window.
The boy was transported to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where hospital staff discovered that he sustained a graze wound to his torso, but the bullet did not penetrate his internal organs.
“Police came. They were doing the investigation. The only thing I want is to find the person,” the boy’s mother, Hassell Oporta, told Local 10 in Spanish on the day of the shooting. “This time, my son had a lot of luck. Maybe next time, no.”
According to the arrest report, detectives pulled over a Lyft vehicle on July 28 that had picked up Del Carpio and his girlfriend.
Police said Del Carpio refused to get out of the car during the traffic stop and detectives had to pull him out of the vehicle and repeatedly punch him in the torso to get him to comply with their orders.
According to the report, Del Carpio later provided a “full confession” to detectives. He was then transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Authorities said the boy was eventually released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
As of Monday, Del Carpio remains at the Metrowest Detention Center, where he is being held without bond.
The judge also ordered him to stay away from the victims involved in the incident.
Del Carpio is due back in court on Oct. 2.