FLORIDA CITY, Fla. – Detectives are searching for a shooter on Sunday while a family is grieving the death of a 9-year-old boy who was wounded in Florida City and later died in the hospital, police said.}
According to Detective Andre D. Martin, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, police officers with the Florida City Police Department responded to the shooting shortly after 9:35 p.m., along West Lucy Street, near Northwest Eighth Avenue.
“Officers immediately began rendering aid until emergency medical personnel arrived,” Martin wrote.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel used a helicopter to rush the boy to HCA Kendall Hospital where the medical staff pronounced him dead, according to Martin.
“The victim was part of a group of individuals gathered outside the apartment complex when shots were fired and the victim was struck by gunfire,” Martin wrote.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Mercedes Cevallos and Joyce Grace Ortega contributed to this report.