GLADEVIEW, Fla. – A 35-year-old felon faced eight new charges on Monday over a Fourth of July shooting at a convenience store in Miami-Dade County, records show.
The shooting caught on surveillance video was early Friday morning in the Gladeview neighborhood, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
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Mark Simmons walked into the 18th Ave. Market, at 6600 NW 18 Ave., wielding a gun, and he ordered three people to leave, according to the deputies’ arrest report.
Shortly before 6:55 a.m., Simmons fired at a customer who was unaware of his threats and managed to get away, according to the M-DCSO deputies’ arrest report.
M-DCSO deputies took Simmons to the Northside Station, at 799 NW 81 St., in the West Little River neighborhood, for questioning and arrested him at 2:30 p.m., records show.
M-DCSO correctional deputies booked Simmons at 4:45 p.m., Friday, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained on Monday afternoon.
Court records show Simmons faced charges of second-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, criminal mischief while armed and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and shooting a deadly missile.
M-DCSO detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.