FLORIDA CITY, Fla. – Witnesses said they took off running after hearing gunshots while shopping on Saturday in southern Miami-Dade County.
Videos show the fear in and out of the Walmart Supercenter, at 33501 South Dixie Highway, in Florida City. Police officers with the Miami-Dade and Florida City police departments and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded.
“Everybody started running toward the back ... we went out the back door where everybody piled up,” said Robert Malneo, who waited outside of the store after police responded.
A witness recorded a video showing Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel with a handcuffed man on a stretcher who they wheeled out and placed in an ambulance. A Florida City police officer, who did not appear to be injured, was also in the ambulance.
A distraught woman who identified herself as a relative of the traumatized loss prevention employee said a retail theft suspect who had been detained pulled out a gun after a police officer left the two in a room. Police had yet to confirm her account on Sunday afternoon.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Joyce Grace Ortega and Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.