MIAMI (AP) – Two people were killed and multiple others wounded in a shooting early Tuesday in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City that has been plagued by violence, police said.
Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the dead include a 20-year-old man and a teenage girl. Police officials say a 17-year-old girl was critically wounded in the shooting near an intersection in Liberty City around 2:30 a.m.
“I’m not sure how it occurred,” police spokeswoman Frederica Burden said. “We’re investigating it now. I don’t know if they were all outside standing, some in a car, some not in a car. I don’t know that yet.”
Last April in Liberty City, a historically low-income neighborhood, a gunman opened fire into a crowd outside a corner store killing a woman and wounding two men.
Alfonso said at the scene that city officials are going to try to reassess their strategy against crime. “We are going to work with our law enforcement partners to make it better,” he said.