OPA-LOCKA, Fla. – A woman was killed and a man was seriously injured Thursday morning in a shooting in Opa-locka.
The shooting was reported in the area of Northwest 133rd Street and 31st Avenue.
Miami-Dade police said the woman was sitting in the passenger side of a vehicle when she was shot.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the man was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital in serious condition.
A woman who lives nearby told Local 10 News reporter Madeleine Wright that she heard the deadly gunfire around 8 a.m.
“I was asleep and I was wakened by three shots. I only heard three shots,” she said. “When I came out, that’s when I heard someone say it was about 15 shots, not three.”
Wright was at the scene as a woman, believed to be a family member, collapsed on the ground.
A paramedic later helped pull her up.
Another woman also showed up and pleaded with officers to let her into the crime scene.
People who live in the neighborhood say gun violence happens far too often there.
“It’s very scary, but growing up in the ghetto, it happens all the time,” one woman said. “When I saw her family come up — it’s heartbreaking.”
The victims’ identities have not yet been released.
Anyone with further information about the shooting is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.