MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Clarice Webster is upset after visiting her son Shawn inside Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

“My grandchildren, they witnessed their father being shot,” she said.

Webster says her son is the Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer employee who was shot in Miami-Dade County’s West Little River neighborhood on Tuesday at approximately 4 p.m. in the area of Northwest 84th Street and Fourth Avenue.

“My son just basically came home from work,” said Webster. “He literally was still in his work clothes.”

“He’s fine right now,” she added.

Police have since identified Nathan J. Cooper, 37, as the suspect in the shooting.

Doorbell video obtained by Local 10 News shows children running away around the same time the shooting occurred.

Before the gunfire, though, investigators learned there was a dispute between children.

“The guy basically came to his house being disrespectful to his child and wife,” said Webster. “They got into an altercation and the guy shot my son. In point blank range in front of his children with his child standing next to him.”

Webster said the issue between the children has been going on for several months.

“How are we supposed to teach these kids to be peaceful and tell someone, if even after telling someone it still escalated to this,” she said.

Officers are still searching for Cooper and say they consider him armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

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