MIAMI (WSVN) – A worker for the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department was taken to the hospital after he came under fire during an altercation in North Miami-Dade.
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and Fire Rescue, units were dispatched to reports of a shooting outside a townhome on Northwest 84th Street, off Fourth Avenue, just after 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
Investigators said the vicim got into an argument with another man, and at one point, the other man pulled out a gun and fired a shot at the worker, striking him.
“The subject [fled] on foot. They have a black shirt,” a first responder is heard saying in radio transmissions.
Paramedics with MDFR transported the injured man to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.
Authorities later identified the victim as an employee of Miami-Dade Water and Sewer.
Back at the scene 7News cameras captured crime scene tape stretching across the residential area as detectives combed the ground near a townhome for evidence and spoke to nearby residents and possible witnesses, as they worked to piece together the details of what led up to the shooting.
As for the alleged gunman, authorities said they have nobody in custody as they continue to determine what happened.
Tuesday night, the victim’s county pickup truck was still parked in the same spot where the shooting took place.
It remains unknown whether or not the two men knew each other, as well as what led to the altercation.
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Source: wsvn
