MIAMI – Aundrai McGregor was wearing a green suicide prevention smock and in handcuffs when he appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer on Thursday.
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During the court hearing, McGregor’s defense claimed detectives arrested him after he confessed to having shot at a man who had “pointed a gun in his direction” in Opa-locka.
The public defender told Glazer that McGregor, 27, had a “classic self-defense case.” Glazer disagreed and ordered him to stay away from yet another alleged victim.
Records show the shooting was on the same day McGregor was released from jail after a Miami-Dade judge ordered him to stay from a domestic violence victim -- and it didn’t take long for him to be accused of violating that order.
“The night of the shooting, [McGregor] was at the home of his chidren’s mother despite the stay-away order,” an Opa-locka police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.
Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested McGregor on March 15 for domestic violence. The Miramar resident didn’t have an arrest record in Broward County.
Before the arrest, McGregor had a short arrest record in Miami-Dade. Prosecutors dropped a defrauding a retailer case in 2020, and a strongarm robbery and battery case last year.
After the arrest, prosecutors filed a burglary with assault or battery case punishable by life on March 16 and decided to close it and file a misdemeanor battery case instead on April 17.
Records show McGregor appeared in court on April 21 and a judge ordered him to stay away from the domestic violence victim and corrections released him on April 23 on a $1,000 bond.
According to the Opa-locka Police Department, ShotSpotter tech recorded 19 shots fired on April 23 at Northwest 22 Avenue and Ali Baba Avenue and investigators found 11 bullet casings, including two 9mm and eight 40mm.
After fleeing the scene of the shooting, McGregor called Opa-locka police, met with detectives, surrendered a black 9mm Taurus G3, and reported the gunman who shot at him was in a white Ford van, according to police.
Opa-locka police officers reported the van -- with five bullet holes on the passenger’s side and two bullet holes on the front windshield -- was near Northwest 153 Terrace and 27 Place, in Miami Gardens, and there was surveillance video related to the shooting.
McGregor “chose to position himself tactically and proceeded to open fire in public towards the victim’s vehicle with no regard to other motorists on the roadway and fled the scene,” a police officer wrote, according to a police report.
Records show McGregor agreed to meet with detectives again on Wednesday at the Opa-locka Police Department’s headquarters and detectives arrested him there at 1:50 p.m. and M-DCSO correctional deputies booked him at 3:35 p.m., at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Miami-Dade court had already set McGregor’s arraignment hearing for the pending misdemeanor battery case related to the March 15 arrest for 9:30 a.m., on May 13. County Circuit Judge Elisabeth Espinosa is set to preside over the case.
For the new Opa-locka case, McGregor faced charges of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, use of a firearm while committing a felony, criminal mischief of $1,000 or more while armed, shooting a deadly missile, and possession of a firearm after a domestic violence injunction.
Opa-locka’s records did not show McGregor’s relationship to the alleged gunman, so Glazer and the prosecution agreed to have another hearing on the case.