MIAMI – Friends and family gathered for a vigil Wednesday night for a 26-year-old man who was found shot to death in a car earlier that day.
Loved ones lit candles for Orlando Miret Jr., who was shot to death while he was inside a black Honda on Southwest 27th Lane near Southwest 37th Avenue.
"He was definitely friendly, young, full of life, just a good kid, with his own company, doing what he had to do," friend Devy Lopez said.
Miret crashed into a pole after he was shot.
During the vigil his friends left some messages on the pole. Some of those messages revealed his nickname, "water boy."
"We called him 'Water Boy,'" Lopez said. "'Water Boy' because he tried out for the baseball team and he didn't make it, so he ended up giving out the water to the team members."
Neighbors heard the gunshots early Wednesday morning and called 911.
"The gunshots woke us up," Nada Sater said.
Bullets came so close to one neighbor's home that one of them struck his rental car parked in the driveway.
Miret's friends can't understand why anyone would want to kill him, and they have a message for the shooter.
"You can run, but you cannot hide," Lopez said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.