MIAMI – Family members of a security guard who is on life support after he was shot at a Miami-Dade County Metrorail station are speaking about the incident.
Kevin Cox is faced with a decision no brother wants to make, but as he watches his brother, Keith Cox, lying comatose and kept alive only by a machine, he recalls a conversation in which his brother told them he never wanted to be trapped in a useless body, making the decision to "let him go" easier.
"Whoever committed this crime, it wasn't an assault. It wasn't a physical threat. It was a murder. They murdered my brother, and for what reason?" Kevin Cox said. "My best friend, my partner. Anybody who knows us knows we were A and B. That's what I lost."
Keith Cox was shot at the Martin Luther King Metrorail station in Liberty City around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, roughly an hour before his shift was scheduled to end.
Witnesses told police they saw two men running from the scene.
"It's just senseless. It doesn't make any sense for such a kind person who doesn't think about negative things like that to be shot," said Kevin Cox's daughter, Launica Cox.
Understandably, it is also too much for the youngest of Keith Cox's three children to handle -- Lydell Cox is 12 years old, unable to talk and letting his sister share.
"I sit there and I look at him on the bed and I look at how he looks, knowing that he doesn't look like my father. I am angry," Lydell's sister said.
"If we don't as a community watch out for each other and speak out when we see something that's wrong, it could be your family murdered next, your father, your uncle or your son," Kevin Cox said.
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