CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — A SWAT team responded to a residential community after a fatal shooting on Thursday morning in Coral Springs.
Witnesses said they heard a shooting shortly before 3 a.m., and a helicopter at about 5 a.m. near Royal Palm Boulevard and Riverside Drive.
Theresa Zuniga, who lives in the area, said she was scared when she heard the helicopter flying over.
“This place is very calm,” Zuniga said about her neighborhood.
Another resident, Samiir Syne, said it’s usually a safe area.
“It’s bizarre, I think it’s a safe area, and the fact that it was right there,” she said.
A man was fatally shot, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a spokesperson for the Coral Springs Police Department.
A white tent and a tarp covered a body near the garbage area of Coral Park East, a community of townhomes. Danny Raymonvil, who lives in the area, said he saw the man dead.
“It’s just unfortunate this person had to lose their life like that,” Raymonvil said.
There was crime scene tape near the pool of a neighboring apartment building at the Coral Springs Tower Club community. There appeared to be an assault rifle in the water.
The Coral Springs Police Department announced that the nearby Somerset Academy will be “closed for the day” and asked the public to “avoid the area.”
Police told Local 10 News it has notified the family but has yet to release the man’s identity.
The victim’s family declined to speak.
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