Woman tells sister she didn’t know driver of car she was in who was shot and killed

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A shooter targeted a black Infiniti early Sunday morning leaving the driver dead and a passenger injured near Jackson Health Medical Center in North Miami Beach.

The crime scene was near the intersection of Northeast First Avenue and 167th Street. Nattalene McDonald said her 25-year-old sister told her that she left a party and decided to get a ride home with the driver, of the black car, but didn’t know exactly who he was. Then, the shooting. One bullet hole could be seen in the front windshield of the car.

“She called me about 2:45, 3 o’clock this morning and said that the car that they were in just got shot up,” McDonald said, later adding her sister was released from the hospital.

The North Miami Beach police have not released much information. They said it is an active homicide investigation and they are searching for the gunman.

(Additional reporting by Local 10′s Trent Kelly.)

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Sandy Antonio contributed to this report.


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