An attempted armed home invasion in Miami Gardens on Monday took a turn after one subject was shot while two others fled the area, police said.
According to the Miami Gardens Police, officers received reports about a possible home invasion in the 3000 block of Northwest 204th Terrace shortly before noon.
Police said that three people, one armed with a rifle, entered the home, and as one of them opened the victim’s bedroom door, they were shot in the arm by the victim.
The two others fled the scene, and Miami-Fire Rescue airlifted the subject to Aventura Hospital.
Their condition is unknown. No other injuries were reported.
A man who lives at the house told NBC6 he and everyone else who was inside are OK, but didn’t want to elaborate further.
Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed multiple officers at the home, which was closed off by yellow police tape.
Neighbors couldn’t believe what they saw and what they heard.
“I heard pop, pop, pop, pop,” one neighbor said.
One teen, who didn’t want to be identified, said she watched from her bedroom window as three people ran inside the house, and when two of them ran out.
“I saw them shooting towards the porch, then running to the car, then the father shot four times,” the teen said. “It was loud, it was right there, across the street, boom, boom, boom, boom.”
The teen said two men who were inside the house also ran outside.
“He was standing outside of the house, he was defending the house, he said, that’s my daughter, I have no money, so I guess he was defending his daughter from the three people who went inside,” the teen said.
A woman who lives down the street said that after she heard gunshots, she saw a car speeding by and someone who had their face covered.
“I saw the car zooming, and the guy was running behind the car, and I thought he was running after the car because I saw him with a gun in his hand,” she said. “I was shocked, I was surprised.”
The search for the two other subjects remains active.
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