According to police, a man who teamed up with a friend to shoot up a home in North Miami Beach wound up getting shot himself — by his partner-in-crime.
Authorities arrested Steeve Jean-Charles, 22, of North Miami, after his discharge from HCA Florida Aventura Hospital on Thursday. He’s facing charges of attempted murder, felon in possession of a firearm and shooting or throwing a deadly missile.
North Miami Beach police said the shooting happened just after 4:22 a.m. Monday at a home in the 1300 block of Northeast 153rd Street.
Multiple people were inside, police said, but the only person who would end up getting shot was Jean-Charles.
He took off after being shot and ended up at a home in the 1400 block of Northeast 136th Street in North Miami, where police were called about 10 minutes after the initial shooting for a man shot in the chest, an arrest report states.
Jean-Charles claimed he didn’t know where the shooting happened, police said. Then, from his hospital, he claimed he got shot in the back by a man who had asked him for money at a northwest Miami-Dade gas station.
Police said they reviewed footage from the gas station and found no evidence of Jean-Charles having been there.
Authorities said he then changed his story, placing himself at the scene of the North Miami Beach house shooting, claiming that he and his friend had gone there to meet two women when “two unknown Black males dressed in black” came up “and began shooting toward them.”
Police said surveillance video from the scene told the real story: Jean-Charles and his friend got out of the car and began shooting at the home when his friend accidentally shot Jean-Charles while running behind him.
Authorities haven’t said whether they’ve identified or arrested the other man.
Jean-Charles was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Center without bond as of early Friday evening.
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Source: local10
