MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police are investigating a late-night shooting that left two men dead.
According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, officers responded to the area of Quail Roost Drive and Southwest 113th Avenue shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday after receiving reports about a shooting.
“I heard gunshots, but I thought it was firecrackers,” a friend of the victims’, Darrel Collins, said.
A Local 10 News crew was at the scene Thursday morning as officers were focusing their attention on a Mercedes-Benz that had bullet holes in it, including all over the windshield and the sides of the car. A window was also shattered during the shooting.
Rodriguez confirmed that officers discovered that the vehicle had struck a utility pole and two men were inside, both with gunshot wounds.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced both victims dead at the scene.
Collins identified the victims as Kenneth Riley, 59, and Jeremy Patterson, 32, who he said were good friends.
“Kenneth Riley is a very pleasant person -- he never bothered anybody -- and his son is my cousin,” Collins said.
Collins said he feels “disgusted” about what happened.
“I’m tired. Every morning there’s something,” he said. “It’s a hard feeling because now his sons don’t have a father.”
Mark Harris represents the Black and White Coalition. He showed up to the scene with a message for those he says are killing with no mercy.
“You got two families suffering, you got the victim as well as the shooter and we are not -- why are we killing one another? These young people need to stop shooting up one another.”
It’s a message Collins also agrees with.
“It’s too much killing,” Collins said. “Every day you wake up, you hear a loved one got shot.”
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
