MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Local 10 News on Saturday exclusively obtained video showing the aftermath inside the bedroom where authorities said a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy fatally shot a 17-year-old Friday morning while serving a search warrant at a Miami Beach apartment.
The video shows the second-floor bedroom of the apartment where investigators say the teen emerged armed with a handgun before a deputy opened fire. Family members told Local 10 the room was covered in blood after the shooting.
Deputies said the shooting occurred shortly before 6 a.m. Friday at 785 81st St., where they were serving a search warrant related to alleged firearms violations involving the 17-year-old and an 18-year-old, according to MDSO.
Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said her deputies repeatedly identified themselves before entering the residence.
“We knocked on the door multiple times and identified ourselves,” Cordero-Stutz said. “Our SRT made entry into the residence at which time a subject exited his bedroom armed with a firearm.”
According to the sheriff, a deputy fired after believing his life was in danger. Authorities say the teen was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots.
“I heard someone then some shots,” one neighbor told Local 10.
The teen’s mother, Yvonne Warner, questioned whether deadly force was necessary.
“Tell me, did they have to do this? No, they didn’t. Tell me why. Treat him like a person, not an animal,” Warner said.
Warner acknowledged her son’s criminal history but said he had recently begun turning his life around.
“From my heart, my baby was everything to me, but he has been in trouble,” Warner said. “He ain’t no saint, but he most definitely was on a different track. He starts school Aug. 13. He just came home from boot camp he’s been doing everything I ask him (to) around the house.”
Cordero-Stutz defended the deputy’s actions, saying the teen posed an immediate threat.
“Clearly this individual who was already in violation of the law in committing multiple felonies chose to exit armed,” Cordero-Stutz said.
Yvonne Warner believes the teen was her son, Darrell Young.
Authorities said both the 17-year-old and the 18-year-old named in the search warrant were on probation, registered gang members and wearing ankle monitors. The sheriff’s office said the warrant stemmed from firearms-related violations.
Jail records show that Young had previously been arrested on an attempted murder charge in Florida City. Records also show he faced separate weapons charges in 2024.
MDSO has not identified the deputy who fired the fatal shots or the individual who was fatally shot.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting, which is standard procedure in deputy-involved shootings.
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